Re: Digest Number 460

What was Drew's suggestion, EDI for equally divided interval
tuning? I like that. So EDIs contain EDOs (which contains equal
temperaments
and equal tunings) and CETs, while UDIs (unequal division of the
interval)
contain UDOs (which contain just intonation, pelog, slendro, etc.) and
pretty
much all other tuning schemes. Well, it makes sense.
This is sort of cool. We have in effect an international tuning
congress,
and some of the things we agree on here may well become the defacto
standards of
the future, due to the power of the internet. I hope we can agree on
some sensible
definitions and terminology, and use them consistently.

John Starrett
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/microtone.html

> [Gerald Eskelin wrote...]
>>Yes. I'm quite sure that the ear does "temper" such chords "naturally." I
>>commonly hear singers make slight pitch modifications in notationally
>>"repeated" or "sustained" notes as the fundamental shifts. And, believe me,
>>very few of those singers have any notion of numbers, ratios or tuning
>>"systems." They simply have sensitive ears.

Carl Luma replied:
>
> Jerry, this doesn't sound anything like temperament to me. It sounds like
> the singers you describe are making commatic adjustments consistent with
> singing in JI.
>
Carl, the term "temper" was used in my paragraph to refer to quote to which
I was responding. That's why it was in quotes. But you are correct. Thanks
for clarifying what I rather clumsily expressed.

Jerry