----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Koval < >........... > In the Young, the biggest offset from an ET tuning is 5.9 cents, which > allows the major thirds to progress from around 6 cents, to 22 cents from > pure thirds. Hi Ron What's fun with Young is that in chords with pure 5ths the major third will beat 2 times when the minor third will beat 3 times. So every third beat is together. A pure 5th by it self is also that, every third wave will produce a beat. That's why the 5th sounds pure. It means that even if the thirds are streched there will be little crashes of beats because they work together. In minor chords there is even better, there will the thirds have the same beat. In the keys with a bad 5th and nice thirds. The thirds will beat about twice as fast as the bad 5ths making a calm sound. Don't listen for the bad third in the Db major listen for the vibrato that is the same as a gospel choir, Hammond leasley or a violinst. don't compare Db major with Cmajor but listen for the Vibrato changing between the chords Db, Gb, Ab and B major A temprement is the vibrato of piano. In ET there are alot beats not working together. Ola Andersson
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