Klarinet Archive - Posting 000358.txt from 2004/11

From: orm1ondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: pitch standard
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 09:42:30 -0500

Keith wrote:

> We can tune octaves, fifths and triads easily
> by absence of beats.

If you establish a complete 'circle of fifths' this way, then haven't
you established the entire temperament already, and thus you don't have
any freedom to adjust anything else?

Or do you mean simply to establish one fifth and then build other
intervals from there?

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