Re: Tuners

From: Karl Signell (signell@cpcug.org)
Date: Thu Nov 27 2003 - 08:41:17 PST


At 11:39 PM 11/26/03 +0800, you wrote:

>Equal temperament is a western invention.

All pitch systems, including western just intonation, western violin
intonation, Javanese court gamelan,
and Turkish classical makam, are arbitrary human inventions. Our brains
are imprinted with the pitch system of the culture we are born into when we
are young, somewhat in the same way as is language. That's why it's hard
work to break out of that imprinting. Concentration and immersion seem to
work.

Karl

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