74-EDO challenge

I say 74-EDO is garbage, in so far as it is no use for anything that
couldn't be done with 37-ET. Anyone think otherwise?

--- In tuning@y..., "dkeenanuqnetau" <d.keenan@u...> wrote:

> I say 74-EDO is garbage, in so far as it is no use for anything that
> couldn't be done with 37-ET. Anyone think otherwise?

It can do meantone, and 37-et can't.

In a message dated 5/15/02 11:49:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
d.keenan@uq.net.au writes:

> I say 74-EDO is garbage, in so far as it is no use for anything that
> couldn't be done with 37-ET. Anyone think otherwise?
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>
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Dave, John Cage's "Ten" is in 74-tET, a 30-minute piece for 10 players, which
the AFMM performed a number of years ago. It sounds like the traffic sounds
that he enjoyed so in N.Y.

Best, Johnny Reinhard

--- In tuning@y..., "dkeenanuqnetau" <d.keenan@u...> wrote:
> I say 74-EDO is garbage, in so far as it is no use for anything
that
> couldn't be done with 37-ET. Anyone think otherwise?

you obviously didn't check my favorite page on the internet (pending
error corrections):

http://www.ixpres.com/interval/dict/eqtemp.htm

74-equal was advocated centuries ago for its excellent approximation
to 3/14-comma and 2/9-comma meantone.

combine that with the many interesting possibilities of 37 (every
other note of 74-equal), such as porcupine, and you have a mighty
versatile equal temperament.

didn't john cage, of all people, write a piece in it?

Many thanks to everyone who educated me about 74-EDO.

-- Dave Keenan