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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
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Posted: Mon Jul 25 12:19:32 1983
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Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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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