shemol

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   by shemol 12y ago

   Complicated, no doubt, but agree it's probably not far from how any non-tempered instrument player harmonizes already, with little or no thought. Thanks for the link to Gary's blog. Good read.
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   by shemol 12y ago

   Per-chord is what I meant, not per-key. 3:2 means you can't have a coherent set for all tones in a key, full stop. But you could slightly shift the frequencies of the notes in a given chord to make that chord perfectly tempered. The
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   by shemol 12y ago

   Constructing a perfect temperament is impossible if you require each logical tone to be mapped to a constant frequency. I've long been curious about what would happen if you allowed the specific frequencies to drift in order to keep t