Hi Jim, You must have been reading the archives because I have not jumped into this latest fray. I have become old enough and barely wise enough to realize that I do not know everything dispute my saying I do. If there are those who say they can hear tone color in ET then I will concede the point to them. For the vast majority of use of people and technicians I doubt it exists except in HT. Now _there_ I can hear tone color. Beethoven in the Temperaments makes that point for me. I found the tones delightful but another tuner/musician was made queasy by the, to him, uncomfortable intervals. I like tone color and wish there were more recordings of it. Newton "Jim Coleman, Sr." wrote: > > Hi Newton: > > I have just one thing to add since we were on this subject about a year > ago. > > I have had it confirmed to my satisfaction that some musicians can hear > tone color even in Equal Temperament. This came as quite a surprise to > me. One of the respondents has perfect pitch and I kinda' suspected it, > but another who does not have perfect pitch also can hear tonality > color in Equal Temperament. > > My sister had a strange kind of perfect pitch. She could not tell > immediately what a certain note is, but by (in her mind) singing through > all the scales, she could then note which ones had sharps or flats and > then could positively identify the note being sounded. this coupled > with my other research convinces me that tone color is there for those > who have ears to hear. PS, I don't hear it. > > Jim Coleman, Sr.
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