The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #142095   Message #3275611
Posted By: Paul Burke
17-Dec-11 - 05:04 PM
Thread Name: Tuning in ye olde days!
Subject: RE: Tuning in ye olde days!
I'm glad I can't hear the difference most of the time. I just think of Charlie Bach's orchestra, the woodwind struggling to fit to what the strings were doing, and who tuned that f*** harpsichord? It's another case of what works is good, theory or not. Not to mention that two orchestras in the same town might use different tunings. I'm considering adding the 12th root of two to e and (1+SQRT(5))/2 as Holy Numbers of the Church of Pi.