This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment >>I also get confused when people say wider or narrower, wider or = narrower than what.<< =20 beatless, or precise whole-number ratios, such as 6:5, 4:3, 3:2, etc. =20 <<What is the standard.>> =20 There is none, as far as stretch is concerned; it varies from piano to = piano.=20 =20 >> For me, the slowly rolling beats of > the fourths and the barely rolling beats of the fifths are much easier = to > hear accurately than thirds/sixths/tenths/seventeenths; they take you = to the > same place in ET, and the fourths and fifths are much more precise. =20 That's great, for you, but for most, I think it's easier to tell if a = third or sixth is beating 5 rather than 6 beats per second than it is to = tell if a fifth is beating 0.5 or 0.7 bps. --David Nereson, RPT ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/af/57/03/93/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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