HT's (Ad Nauseum)

[Richard Moody]

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> From: Susan Kline <skline@proaxis.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: HT's (Ad Nauseum)
> Date: Thursday, February 19, 1998 2:10 AM
> 
>
>And no one 
> except Ralph and maybe Richard Moody has mentioned 2nds and 7ths.
While 
> we don't deal with them in tuning, they DO have flavors of their
own, 
> which no doubt we are used to hearing a certain way.

> Getting fairly deep into things like the colors of 7ths and 2nds is
going 
> to take some work.
> 
> Susan

Seconds ? oh,, well,, yes,, seconds.  You see it all started when I
was playing Chopsticks at Ralph's party, or was it Jim's party.  You
know the old argument, that's a second, no its a seventh. And some
one was saying something about it being the dominant seventh because
it resolves half a step down to the third of the tonic. 
	You must be reading my mind susan, I spent a coupla hours figuring
out a 9/8 temperament on a spread sheet. Its the old mean tone
problem, do something logical with the white keys, and wing it with
the black keys.  I said the heck with the meantone, I'll take the
whole tone.  Hmm I wonder what a 10/9 would look like. 
	Everyone knows I am muttering about  ratios in the diatonic scale
right?   9/8 is a major second.  10/9 is the other one. 
	Susan finally hit on the great concern of HT advocates, it gives the
keys their "color" and "character".  Now  with Tom's offal pun, about
a piece in HT, I would say he was experiencing key character, at
least subliminally. Db then  must be gut wrenching in a shade of
brown. 

R Moody