It's the structure of the interval system as a whole, and the way this structure is accessed/implemented (ie, modality) that matter most. Specific close...
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Michael
djtrancendance
Apr 1, 2011 3:09 pm
... prefer the 1\2 octave that is available in *any* even-numbered EDO....it's actually in some respects (geometrically) a simple interval. Sqrt(2)!" ...
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Michael
djtrancendance
Apr 1, 2011 3:20 pm
Jake> > Someone (Mike? Michael?) recently talked about people tolerating sharp ...   Alas, I mentioned I am pretty sure tolerance is asymmetrical. And to...
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Chris Vaisvil
vaisvil
Apr 1, 2011 4:24 pm
ok, I got the bird down, I'm working on a piece of music to demonstrate. 1. The fret placement is actually not as critical as one may think. 2. When I bought...
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john777music
Apr 1, 2011 6:01 pm
I posted this earlier but it never got through, second try. I was using a +/-6.776 cents (256/255) accuracy in my analysis of the good dyads in EDOs 4 to 24....
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john777music
Apr 1, 2011 6:13 pm
... If you are tempering the higher note in a just interval, in most timbres, the interval will sound slightly better when the higher note is sharpened...
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ixlramp
Apr 1, 2011 6:21 pm
This tuning sounds good. MatC...
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cityoftheasleep
Apr 1, 2011 6:38 pm
... What do you mean "the same pattern"? Are the outer two strings still two octaves apart? ... So you didn't have to futz around with fret dressing/leveling?...
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Michael
djtrancendance
Apr 1, 2011 7:11 pm
... where every dyad in each chord corresponds to one of the good dyads listed above (within 7.2 cents accuracy). 1, 6, 11, 16 1, 6, 11....." This kind of...
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christopherv
vaisvil
Apr 1, 2011 7:31 pm
As many of you know I bought a $50 Woods DW-15 acoustic dreadnought 12 note per octave guitar at Guitar Center, fret wire, and a fret saw. After a couple days...
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Carl Lumma
clumma
Apr 1, 2011 11:01 pm
... Please stop advertising your book here. -Carl...
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john777music
Apr 1, 2011 11:59 pm
Jake has a copy of my book and I felt that the answers to the questions he asked are addressed in the book. You might try testing my ideas before you dismiss...
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Chris Vaisvil
vaisvil
Apr 2, 2011 12:13 am
Just a thought - isn't this a *good* place to talk about a microtonal theory book? I honestly don't understand the problem here.... especially when it seems...
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Michael
djtrancendance
Apr 2, 2011 2:26 am
Carl>"Please stop advertising your book here"   Sounds like a double standard to me you are posing against John. Carl, you regularly tell people "you...
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Mike Battaglia
battaglia01
Apr 2, 2011 2:53 am
... This forum is for everyone's benefit. If you're going to put an idea forward, please put it forward all the way so that we can comment on and critique it. ...
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Mike Battaglia
battaglia01
Apr 2, 2011 3:24 am
... Have you been reading the list at all? John has gotten numerous reviews on his book, and they are almost unanimously poor. What else do you want? Nobody...
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Carl Lumma
clumma
Apr 2, 2011 4:19 am
... John, you've got a pattern of self-promotion here. ... I have. -Carl...
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Michael
djtrancendance
Apr 2, 2011 4:48 am
MikeB>"Have you been reading the list at all? John has gotten numerous reviews on his book, and they are almost unanimously poor. What else do you want?" Â Â ...
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Mike Battaglia
battaglia01
Apr 2, 2011 4:55 am
... I didn't like it, Carl didn't like it, Igs didn't like it. If we go on and on and on complaining, that's only because the author of the book has gone on...
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Petr Paízek
petrparizek2000
Apr 2, 2011 10:36 am
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Chris Vaisvil
vaisvil
Apr 2, 2011 3:20 pm
Mike and Carl, Mike wrote a number of points here, and I choose one to tie back to the issue for continuity. From my vantage the problem isn't self-promotion,...
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cityoftheasleep
Apr 2, 2011 3:35 pm
I'm with Chris on this one. I don't think John's out of line at all. Especially considering that he seems game to give the book away to anyone here who wants...
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john777music
Apr 2, 2011 4:00 pm
Carl and Mike, you have obviously made up your minds about me and I doubt that there is anything I could say or argue now that will change that. One or two...
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Carl Lumma
clumma
Apr 2, 2011 4:34 pm
... Chris- John is a vigorous self-promoter who ignores feedback from the list. -C....
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Carl Lumma
clumma
Apr 2, 2011 4:45 pm
... You worked on it for 14 years before you thought to google alternative tunings? ... It's very much less than scientific. Science requires that others...
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cityoftheasleep
Apr 2, 2011 4:50 pm
I would just like to bring up an issue that arises in attempts to quantify and predict concordance in terms of error from JI, namely that of variations in...
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genewardsmith
Apr 2, 2011 6:17 pm
... We could always weight higher primes higher rather than lower, of course. Maybe I should start promoting Frobenius tuning. Graham got TE tuning going based...
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john777music
Apr 2, 2011 7:07 pm
Igs, I did a few listening tests and here's what I got. You said that mistuning a 9/7 by 256/255 will produce a much greater level of discordance than...
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cityoftheasleep
Apr 2, 2011 7:22 pm
... That might help, but there's still the issue of cases where discordance can decrease as error increases past a certain threshold, even when you're still...
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cityoftheasleep
Apr 2, 2011 7:46 pm
... Yes, and that's one of the reasons that it can't tolerate nearly as much mistuning as a 5/4. Do you believe your 256/255 threshold still applies to 9/7? ...
