In a message dated 8/25/99 8:52:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Clark Panaccione writes: << I would say that the 1/3 comma meantone, nearly perfectly posing as 19tet, is much more "far out" sounding than 22tet and it has been historically favored. Clark Panaccione >> Interesting that you would say this. I have done this one and know how to program the SAT to do it with perfect accuracy. It is actually quite easy to do and I will tell you how to do it if you would like to know (not deviations of an FAC program). The composer Thomas Salinas is known to have used it. I would think that it would be good for funeral music. To me, it makes music sound like a Salvador Dali painting looks. The chords have a "melting" sound. The music "oozes" out of the piano. I consider 1/4 comma meantone to be at the opposite end of the spectrum from ET and 1/3 comma meantone is one big step beyond that into a different realm. I would like to hear Debussy's "Pagodes" played in this temperament someday because I think you might really hear the "Gamelon music" effect. It would completely transform the piano's sound into that of a virtual Gamelon music orchestra, a kind of sound totally foreign to our ears but normal to that of deep southeast Asia. It is a very different and distant sound from the usual Victorian that I do on a daily basis. Bill Bremmer RPT
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