At 9:54 AM +0100 2/27/05, Stephan Olbertz wrote: >have a look at >http://www.hermode.de/
This is a most interesting site and has very understandable presentations. It's almost enough to make me want to buy Logic Audio just so I can use the system. It presents a solution along the lines of what I was suggesting. At 4:51 PM +0900 2/27/05, Ed Durbrow wrote: >I think you could play in one temperament/mode, change to >another based on an equal temperament shift, and one would (not) notice so >much, yet the harmony within each tonal area would be beautiful >because you could arrange for perfect fifths and thirds or what have >you. At 5:27 AM -0800 2/27/05, Howard Posner wrote: >This actually happens rather a lot in barbershop quartet singing. >Barbershoppers adjust intervals on the fly to get chords to "ring." Since >they're constantly flattening thirds, this tends to make the overall pitch >drift downwards. They don't care. The "Software-Driven Tunings ¬Ý¬Ý"Mutabor": A "Group"-System" at the hermode site graphically depicts how this happens. But not only barbarshop quartets go flat! I once played a Dowland song with a choir in college. When they stopped singing and I played my little solo we were a semitone apart. cheers, -- Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
