Dear Dana, On Fri, 27 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Jon Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Bringing it back to the lute, your > > ear is the best tuning device. > > Arguable. > > Yes, some humans ear will be the ultimate judge, but, diffreent ears > have different preferences, and, frankly, the human ear isnt capable of > hearing the differences between close tones without using tricks like > difference tone beats. Even with those tricks, one has to correctly > implement whatever temperament is to be used. What Jon wrote was "your ear is the best tuning device". I could not agree more! Of course there are " different preferences" as you write, but the ultimate criteria really is YOUR ear; in my case my ear, in every one's case her/his ear! No devidce will ever win my own sense of tuning well! There really is no "objectivity" here! All the best Arto PS Tomorrow morning: a rehearsal of Monteverdi, and also an interesting piece by Trabaci, a spectacle for 3 sirens... :-) To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
