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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
BlueSage	Is the tempered scale overrated? (56* d)	RE: Is the tempered scale overrated?	20 Oct 02
I'm slightly confused by this thread. Is the term 'natural scale' being used to describe what is sometimes called a 'just' tuning? When I hear the phrase "natural scale", I think of a scale ( "G natural as opposed to G minor" ) not a tuning. If this thread is about 'just' tuning, then many of us will have only an academic interest in the subject as our instruments will only play tempered tunings of some type or another. If you play a fretted instrument, unless you have removable fretboards for each key and mode, you will be stuck with a tempered tuning of some sort no matter how you tune. Therefore even if I prefer the sound of a 'just' scale, I'm stuck with a tempered tuning on my particular instruments (guitar, mandolin, banjo). Maybe I need to buy a fretless banjo and then revisit this thread..... Mike

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