<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> On 5/1/2012 6:13 AM, Joseph Giandalone wrote:<br><br>> It seems to me that much of what we hear when we hear music, is what we<br>> EXPECT to hear – that is, we have absorbed a 12-tone equal-temperament<br>> scale from the time we were little babies, so that is what we hear.<br><div><br></div><div>I might agree with that if the only music heard during one's life was keyboard music.</div><div>Remember, ET doesn't exist in the wider world of music - band, choir, orchestra, etc...</div><div>Combine that with the lack of ability of many tuners to actually tune ET, even when</div><div>they insist that ET is the only proper tuning and you might come to a different conclusion. </div><div>(present company excepted, of course!)</div><div><br></div><div>Ron Koval</div> </div></body> </html>