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RE: [tuning] starting out in Just Intonation

🔗Paul H. Erlich <PERLICH@ACADIAN-ASSET.COM>

4/17/2000 4:59:22 PM

Joseph Pehrson wrote,

>The Blackwood treatise might be a bit much for the
>absolute beginner, don't you think?

True, but I would not want to read Doty, Partch, and Helmholtz without a
good exposure to some of the arguments against always using strict JI. I've
seen some good brief examples of those in many varied sources, for example
the entry under "Temperament" in an 1800's Grove Dictionary.