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🔗Mark Gould <mark.gould@argonet.co.uk>

9/27/2002 2:00:32 AM

>Joseph :

>Had history gone differently, and maybe somebody like Vicentino
>caught on, as I understand it, we might be using 31-tET or 19-tET
>today instead!!!

If this were the case, would we be exploring 12-tET and would it have the
same quasi fringe status as 31 and 19 do today? Anyone got any thoughts on
what would have been different in music had 19 or 31 become the standard of
western music?

Mark