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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Tempered scales
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Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 13:44:47 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  7 13:44:47 1984
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>>> ...Any deviation from simple ratios will cause
>>> interference between the two sound sources which, if the deviation is
>>> small, results in a beating sensation. The modern equal tempered scale 
>>> has a frequency ratio between semitones of the twelfth root of two. This 
>>> means that certain intervals are out of tune. In particular, the major 
>>> third is too wide. My subjective feeling is that this produces a harsh 
>>> edge to the music which I find unpleasant.

>>> 			Chris Isbell.
>>>     		(...decwrl!rhea!marvin!isbell)

So do I.  After an evening with my viol consort I can't go home and
listen to Mozart.   Actually, my beef with recordings of Mozart's
symphonic music is that it sounds demented when played by a 102 piece
orchestra and those damned modern instruments.  The worst offender is
modern violin construction and technique: The piercing screech and wide
vibrato totally mask the beautiful interplay of, for example, the
last movement of the Jupiter.  If you haven't heard music of the
Baroque and Classical periods performed on Baroque instruments, you
have not heard it at all.
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