tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204188024832829733.post2923916914721936905..comments2023-04-06T03:44:14.981-04:00Comments on Sans Direction: Man, That's ...Dave Jacobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15052163927020492687noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204188024832829733.post-66990147978058591112010-01-05T11:39:05.390-05:002010-01-05T11:39:05.390-05:00Some people are more sensitive to tuning than othe...Some people are more sensitive to tuning than others. Most people can, when it is pointed out, recognize the difference between Equal Temperament and Just Intonation. For some, ET is painful. For most, it's not really noticeable. When he says "That's not D7," he really means "Those tones aren't exactly aligned with the whole-number ratios of the harmonic series." A deeper understanding of music theory (which, sadly, he speaks against) would have made that point clearer.<br />Most people stop learning music theory after scales and chords, and never move on to intonation, temperament, and the delicate mathematical intricacies of why you can't tune a guitar to a piano. It gets mathematically complex when you start dissecting the physics of music, but there's a strange beauty of paradox in it. Some are lead to madness in search of a better way. (I'm looking at you, <a href="http://users.rcn.com/dante.interport//justguitar.html" rel="nofollow"> Dante Rosati.</a>) Some, on seeing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_intervals" rel="nofollow">how deep the hole goes</a>, give up and resign themselves to forever <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament" rel="nofollow">compromising</a>. Some shrug, say "It's good enough" and go back to playing how they've always played. <br />Personally, I think that in the music of Heaven there is no <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_comma" rel="nofollow">Pythagorean comma</a>, but in all our efforts here on earth we'll be forever limited by our math and our physics. There is no such thing as a perfect tuning system. Every tuning system compromises something.patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800337561306169507noreply@blogger.com