It puzzles me too, but it came in a acoustic experiment by a friend who noticed that in extended passages of parralel 10ths (a lot more than in 3rds) on a ren. lute meantone overinflections become offputting. A similar sutiation was reported by a different friend on a temperamentally programmable syntheziser. RT
> 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 >
