In article <41e9tss3hut4mv05mjo6avctnpr4pr02ng at 4ax.com>, Hans-Georg
Michna <hans-georgNoEmailPlease at michna.com> writes
>Given the choice between 12 and 19, we're probably not surprised
>that nature and our biology preferred 12. 19 tones would be
>unwieldy and unnecessarily complicated. I would guess that
>nature simply chose the lowest number for which the mathematics
>of hitting close to 3/2 and 4/3 happen to work.
Rohan de Saram plays the 'cello in that temperament.
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Ken Moore
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