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From: maverick@oak.Berkeley.EDU (Vance Maverick)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: minor triad
Keywords: Intonation systems, octaves, tuning systems
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Date: 17 Nov 89 20:40:34 GMT
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	If you look at the three intervals of the triad 10:12:15, you get three nice ratios -- 5:6, 2:3, 4:5, all simpler than any of the ratios in 5:7:11.  The absence of "complex" ratios between any pair of tones seems justification enough for the acceptance of the triad as stable.