I'm not sure what you're trying to say. I didn't mention meantone.
On Dec 13, 2009, at 9:14 AM, Roman Turovsky wrote:
So what?
Once you put your fingers on the strings in MT: the comma is no
longer what it is supposed to be.
The fact is that MT sounds like clowning, from chord-character
overemphasis.
RT
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Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: D-minor tuning and ET?
OK, gang: if you're using "near equal temperament" or "mostly
equal temperament" or "equal temperament but a flat fourth fret"
or "equal temperament with flat A strings," what you're using is
"unequal temperament."
I suppose the process many of us actually use is backward from the
historical one: we start with ET and "temper" it. The result is
no more "equal temperament" than fifth-comma meantone is
"Pythagoran" or "just."
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