At 06:19 PM 9/5/2007 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: >On 5 Sep 2007 at 14:38, Andrew Stiller wrote:
>> Oh come on. The range of possible temperaments in wh. it is possible to >> play musically in every key is a very narrow one, and the difference >> *in sound* between well-tempered and equal-tempered is a matter of a >> few cents here and there. > >Are you crazy? There's a huge difference, because the less you spread >out the comma, the more different the leftover keys (i.e., the bad >ones) sound in comparison to the "good" keys. I agree with David on this. I would have been skeptical too, except that years ago I heard an episode of Micrologus called "Temper, Temper" in which contrasting examples were played. Those "few cents" made an enormous difference in *sound*. Since then, I've had an huge respect for tuning systems -- Western and others. If you want to hear "Temper, Temper", I got permission from Ross Duffin, the original scholar and commentator, to archive it: Show #423A on this page: <http://kalvos.org/shows-2003.html> Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
