I've written a few pieces on my blog about tuning and intonation which touches on these issues.
Tuning your horn http://jonathanhornthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/05/tuning-your-horn.html More on tuning http://jonathanhornthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-on-tuning.html How flat is that open E on the F side? http://jonathanhornthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-flat-is-that-open-e-on-f-side.html Just intonation vs Equal temperament http://jonathanhornthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/07/just-intonation-vs-equal-temperament.html When listening to keyboard music where the instrument is not tuned using equal temperament, there is a much stronger sense of "returning home" when a piece returns to the key in which the keyboard was tuned, having modulated away from it. I suspect that some of this business about different keys evoking different moods is simply a matter of tradition having grown up. But some of it may have come from the way different keys sound on early keyboard instruments not tuned with equal temperament. Regards Jonathan West _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
