Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!allegra!jdd From: jdd@allegra.UUCP Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Re: tempered scale Message-ID: <1677@allegra.UUCP> Date: Mon, 25-Jul-83 12:19:32 EDT Article-I.D.: allegra.1677 Posted: Mon Jul 25 12:19:32 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 25-Jul-83 21:36:21 EDT References: <236@watdaisy.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 12 A truly neat hack if you have a computer-controlled synthesizer or other instument that can generate arbitrary frequencies is dynamic detuning of notes sounded in combination to force them to be at exactly small-integer ratios. Any static detuning is going to be a compromise, with some combinations sounding pretty good and some not that great, but dynamic detuning can make them all sound perfact. It works, too. BTW, this is patented, so don't get in trouble. Cheers, John ("My Voice Detune Every Time I Sing") DeTreville Bell Labs, Murray Hill