Re: specific temperament and pitch

[Hans Aberg]

On 10 Feb 2008, at 21:25, neuro wrote:

> Actually, I was trying to convince my ears first that,
> "the major 3rds of every major chord in a tonic piece should be  
> played a little bit lower -- as 'just intonation' tuned, rather  
> than 12-equal temperamented," and hoping Lilypond's midi could play  
> that way.

If you want to compare 12-ET and Just intonation, then you might try  
72-ET in Scala. It divides every 12-ET semitone into 6 equal parts.  
Relative to 12-ET, the interval 5/4 is gotten by lowering the M3 by  
one 72-ET tone step, the interval 7/4 by lowering the seventh two 72- 
ET tonesteps, and the 11/4 by lowering the P4+ three tonesteps. It is  
not as good approximation of the intervals 3/2 and 5/4 as 53-ET, though.

  Hans Åberg