beats and just intonation

[Evoniuk, Gary E]

>Just Intonation, relating and limiting to the idea of beatless intervals
DOES exist, and quite often with those 2 instruments [horn and clarinet].
Tom Servinsky,RPT 
Not to mention the brass sections.  Particularly noticeable on final chords,
and especially when written in closed position (e.g. trombones at end of
Brahms Symphony #2).  That said, I think many brass players experience (and
detect) a just interval on the basis of a perceived increase in resonance
rather than the absence of beats.  
The use of vibrato in wind playing (especially brass) varies widely by
country.  American brass players are among those who use the least.
Russians use an amazingly wide and beautiful vibrato, but primarily for solo
lines.
I can't disagree that beats can add to the musicality of piano playing.
Trying to imagine the sound of the impossible - a piano in which all
intervals sound just - conjures up an aural image of a rather colorless and
uninteresting sound.
BTW terrific post from Mmeade1pno.


Gary Evoniuk
Durham, NC