The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #52641   Message #806711
Posted By: Thomas the Rhymer
19-Oct-02 - 12:51 PM
Thread Name: Is the tempered scale overrated?
Subject: Is the tempered scale overrated?
Having spent over a thousand hours tuning strings to 'natural' scales... only to have to change them into 'tempered' tonings, I so often wonder if the tempered scales were really so great an idea as all that... Is all this transmodal playing just tacky tribulation? Are we missing out on some of the finer and subtler musical magic? What do you think? ttr