On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > How easy is it to understand (hear and sing) the difference between an > equal-tempered major triad, and a just or a Werckmeister-III etc? Think timbre. For any given chord, we can tolerate small amounts of mistuning without being able to distinguish between them, but there are different ways the sound varies proportionally with mistuning. Complex harmonies are much like template-matching, but a chord can have small differences in rates of beating of pairs of partials or dissonances. Generally, for short enough chord durations, tunings are irrelevant--only the approximation of just tempered tuning is important, and the chord is judged more as being 'in-tune' or 'out-of-tune'. A just-temperament tuned chord with a harmonic spectrum instrument will have minimal amounts of beating and dissonance among other tunings with the same instrument. I've played with micro-tuning a little bit and I never miss a chance to say I'm a fan of William Sethares' book, "Tuning timbre spectrum sound". _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
