The major third is a dissonance in equal temperament because it is way too big. Even the perfect major third was considered to be an imperfect consonance in the dark ages.
Lex > Op 1 mrt. 2017, om 09:03 heeft Matthew Daillie <dail...@club-internet.fr> het > volgende geschreven: > > Could you explain what you mean Ron, I don't understand this at all. Why do > you say the interval of a third is a dissonant interval? > Best > Matthew >> On Mar 1, 2017, at 5:13, Ron Andrico <praelu...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> 3) It's not the g string on guitar that is the cause of the tuning >> problem, stiff though it may be for nylon players. The culprit is the >> b string, which is tuned at the interval of a third from the g string, >> which is a dissonant interval. > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
