Equal Beating, what does it mean?

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

ric,

At 23:13 10/2/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I would like to determine what "Equal Beating" means when it occurs in the
title,
>"Equal Beating ________ Temperament".   


I believe that Owen's original use of the term "equal beating" was a label
to distinguish it from the recipe for the same temperament which was labeled
"theoretically correct".

I'm more than a few feet away from my copy of "Tuning Historical
Temperaments by Ear", but I think you will find that the EB temperaments are
merely an expedient to help tuners closely approximate the "theoretically
correct" through the use of equal beating series of check intervals.  


Conrad Hoffsommer     mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu

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