[CAUT] ET vs UET

[Ed Sutton]

But will they care?
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurence Libin" <lelibin at optonline.net>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] ET vs UET


> Remember that we don't have to be conscious of a stimulus to be affected 
> by it. What we hear isn't the same as what registers subliminally. Average 
> listeners can respond differently to a piece played in different 
> temperaments (or at different pitches) without being aware of what causes 
> their reactions.
> Laurence
>
>
> It is also very  useful to step back and wonder what differences do 
> actually register
>> with the listener - the average listener, the acute listener, the one- 
>> of-a-kind listener. . . .  How many people (if any) will hear this 
>> particular subtlety I am  trying to introduce? Can I even hear it myself, 
>> if I am dispassionate  about it? This is the sort of question I ask of my 
>> own work, and I  think it is a very useful thing to do. > Regards,
>> Fred Sturm
>> fssturm at unm.edu
>> http://www.createculture.org/profile/FredSturm
>>
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