Towards Pure(er) 5ths in ET

Richard Moody remoody@midstatesd.net
Wed, 11 Apr 2001 00:24:11 -0500


|On the contrary, if you tune an
| octave, then expand the fourth within that octave, you will
| automatically contract the fifth.
|
| Does this cloudify the subject?
|
| Tom Cole

Well it is a lofty subject esp when you wonder why the G4--C5 fourth
will beat twice as fast as the C4--G4 fifth.  And this is not the same
thing as saying the 4th on top is twice as sharp as the 5th on the
bottom.  ---ric



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