[CAUT] ET "width"

[Fred Sturm]

So IOW he didn't hear a Coleman 8 expecting an ET, and say he didn't  
like it. He heard a non-ET that he was told to expect and decided he  
didn't want it, that he would prefer ET.
Fred
On Apr 12, 2010, at 10:32 AM, Andrew Anderson wrote:

> In this case we had a discussion about key flavor and he was  
> curious.  After the Coleman he decided he wasn't curious... ;-)
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> Andrew Anderson
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> On Apr 12, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Fred Sturm wrote:
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>> Hi Andrew,
>> 	I have numbers for a few of Jim Coleman's recipes, but Coleman 8 I  
>> don't have. Is there a source for all of them somewhere?
>> 	I'd be surprised if your comp prof would notice Di Veroli's  
>> "almost equal" temperament. I wouldn't classify it as a WT. The  
>> maximum deviation from ET is just over 1 cent (supposedly 1.08  
>> cents). For those who are interested, it is Di Veroli's creation,  
>> based on making AC# very slightly narrower than ET (by 0.35 bps),  
>> and making C#F and FA equal in width in bps. Then divide each major  
>> third into its component fifths (the fifths "within" each third  
>> being equal in size). A rather quirky recipe he first published in  
>> 1978. The M3s vary (theoretically) from 12.6 cents to 15.9 cents,  
>> in a WT style pattern (the maximum size M3 is C#E#, and the minimum  
>> size applies to CE, GB, DF# and AC#).
>> Regards,
>> Fred Sturm
>> University of New Mexico
>> fssturm at unm.edu
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>> On Apr 12, 2010, at 8:51 AM, Andrew Anderson wrote:
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>>> In this case I tried a Coleman 8.  I usually do a really mild di  
>>> Verolli well.
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>>> Andrew Anderson
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>>> On Apr 12, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Fred Sturm wrote:
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>>>> On Apr 12, 2010, at 7:48 AM, Andrew Anderson wrote:
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>>>>> I've tuned a well temperament for a composer professor here who  
>>>>> is careful now to specify Equal Temperament to me.  He knows and  
>>>>> is quite sensitive to the difference in intervals.  No one else  
>>>>> I tune for knows if anything is different.
>>>>>
>>>>> Andrew Anderson
>>>>
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>>>> 	What WT was this? IOW, how far from ET?
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Fred Sturm
>>>> fssturm at unm.edu
>>>> http://www.createculture.org/profile/FredSturm
>>>>
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Regards,
Fred Sturm
fssturm at unm.edu
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