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
----- Original Message -----
From: "howard posner" <howardpos...@ca.rr.com>
To: "BAROQUE-LUTE Lutelist" <baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 12:02 PM
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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