[NSP] Esoteric tuning relationships

2011-02-03 Thread Richard York
I am sure I'm not the only person here who gets different feelings about different keys. G always feels fairly stable, A is a bit more exciting, Em is darker than Am , and so on. When playing an A minor tune I wrote for nsp's on the piano to see what harmonies it wanted, I was

[NSP] Re: Esoteric tuning relationships

2011-02-03 Thread Gibbons, John
This makes a lot more sense on a mean-tone tempered instrument like NSP, than on a notionally equal-tempered one like a piano. Different keys do have perceptibly different intervals between the various degrees on NSP, so G-d is pretty true and E-B is on the flat side; but on a piano a fifth is