This puzzles me. 10ths are not very different from thirds. Meantone thirds are quite nice once the ear forgets about those too wide ET thirds. If 10ths were significantly different, we'd have very false octaves. E.g.: 10th c-e' sounds ugly, 3rd c'-e' sounds nice. Then the octave c-c' must be out of tune, which is much easier to hear than a not-so-perfect 3rd. Or am I missing something? g
On 25.03.2006, at 20:40, Roman Turovsky wrote: > ps > Those "ugly thirds" are problematic only in major keys, anyway. > Conversely I find meantone 10ths ugly, especially in parallel passages > thereof. > RT To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
