Re: [tuning] Survey: Your favorite sizes for thirds?

--- prophecyspirit@aol.com wrote:
>One reason an orchestra sounds so nice is because the
> instruments don't play in phase.
>
> Those who seek to have their just intonation 100% perfect theoretically,
> create something unnatural, as it's not found in nature for harmonic-partials
> above the 3rd one.
>
> My organ has perfect octaves, except between the left and right keyboard
> halves, which are split at Middle C. As octaves in phase in the midrange make
> the higher note sound very-much louder (4 x, as I recall) than it should, and
> thus distort chords it is in.
> Pauline
>

Would you mind elaborating about your comment, "One reason an orchestra sounds
so nice is because the instruments don't play in phase."

I understand "cycles" behave this way and wonder WHY an "orchestra
sounds so nice" because of it?

Can you also elaborate on WHY "As octaves in phase in the midrange make
the higher note sound very-much louder"?

Thanks, in advance.

Bill Arnold
billarnoldfla@yahoo.com
http://www.cwru.edu/affil/edis/scholars/arnold.htm
Independent Scholar
Independent Scholar, Modern Language Association
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