Re: [tuning] Digest Number 3755

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>Why would one necessarily conclude that beats out of phase with one
>another make the equal beating inconsequential? What's wrong
>with "swing"?

Nothing.

> >And then it was latched onto by Jorgensen, and promoted
> > even farther beyond its utility, and now here we are.
>
>You are mistaken. Jorgenson talks about tunings with equal beats
>among different instances of the same interval; here we are talking
>about equal beats among *different* intervals within a single chord.
>Apples and oranges.

I was referring to the way Jorgensen goes through all his temperaments, counting and reporting on the number of "proportionally beating triads"--most of which are typically caused by having a pure 5th. [And therefore the major 3rd and the minor 3rd in them beat proportionally; so what?] As if a high count of such in a temperament means it's somehow better than temperaments with lower counts?

Brad Lehman