Re: [tuning] JI versus RI

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Ozan Yarman" <ozanyarman@s...> wrote:
> Why, the beauty of the acronym of JI would then be transformed into
RI, which is hardly aesthetical or compelling for me.
>

This is silly. RI is the 2nd degree of Indian solfege, a functional term, and JI (shorted "siji", meaning "one" in Javanese) is used by Javanese to identify pitch number one, which is not a functional identity in the pathet. You're comparing oranges and juice machines.

If, however, you intend to pronounce the "I" in RI or JI as the dipthong [ai], then anyone who has ever tasted Kvass or Roggenbier might well have a far different sense of aesthetics.

Daniel Wolf