[LAU] Re: That must suck. For me it's about beauty--musicisjustone path

Brad Fuller brad at sonaural.com
Fri Apr 6 01:13:54 EDT 2007


Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> On 4/6/07, Chuck Martin <dsdhpnw02 at sneakemail.com> wrote:
>
>> No equal tempered scale will have any of those ratios, exactly, except
>> for the octave.  Just tunings will have some of those ratios, exactly,
>> buy only in certain keys, because it's impossible to have all fifths or
>> all thirds perfect, for example.
>
> Well, it is impossible if you are using a fixed-pitch instrument.
> With talented singers, it's almost impossible to have any fifth or
> third not perfect.

Do understand you here. Do you mean that talented singers can only sing 
perfect fifths or thirds? Or that talented singers can't? 
I know quite a few singers (talented) that can sing whatever you put in 
front of them.



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