polytuning

In the past we've had arguments about whether instrumentalists
could play in adaptive tuning along with a keyboard or guitar
in equal temperament. Judge for yourself how well this works
by listening to the Charpentier example at the hermode tuning
site. First the horns play in hermode tuning with the keyboard,
then the example reapeats with both horns and keyboard in ET.

http://www.hermode.com/

Then click on "examples".

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <ekin@l...> wrote:

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> In the past we've had arguments about whether instrumentalists
> could play in adaptive tuning along with a keyboard or guitar
> in equal temperament. Judge for yourself how well this works
> by listening to the Charpentier example at the hermode tuning
> site. First the horns play in hermode tuning with the keyboard,
> then the example reapeats with both horns and keyboard in ET.
>
> http://www.hermode.com/
>
> Then click on "examples".
>
> -Carl

***The horns sound a little "funky" in the Hermode, don't they??

JP

My feeling is that the blend of ET and hermode is no more or less compatible than ET
played against itself. Truthfully, you'd be unlikely to hear horns that well in tune with
a harpsichord in any concert situation no matter what tuning they were striving for.
That being said, the tuning is indeed incompatible from a purist's perspective, since
you can feel that things are a bit out of whack-- but they would be that way in ET too
*in vivo*. (Another factor is the harpsichord timbre with its stronger overtones and
weaker fundamental.) -Justin

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Joseph Pehrson" <jpehrson@r...> wrote:
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <ekin@l...> wrote:
>
> /tuning/topicId_45669.html#45669
>
> > In the past we've had arguments about whether instrumentalists
> > could play in adaptive tuning along with a keyboard or guitar
> > in equal temperament. Judge for yourself how well this works
> > by listening to the Charpentier example at the hermode tuning
> > site. First the horns play in hermode tuning with the keyboard,
> > then the example reapeats with both horns and keyboard in ET.
> >
> > http://www.hermode.com/
> >
> > Then click on "examples".
> >
> > -Carl
>
>
> ***The horns sound a little "funky" in the Hermode, don't they??
>
> JP

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <ekin@l...> wrote:
> In the past we've had arguments about whether instrumentalists
> could play in adaptive tuning along with a keyboard or guitar
> in equal temperament. Judge for yourself how well this works
> by listening to the Charpentier example at the hermode tuning
> site. First the horns play in hermode tuning with the keyboard,
> then the example reapeats with both horns and keyboard in ET.
>
> http://www.hermode.com/
>
> Then click on "examples".

Then click on "download all examples".