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From: daver@felix.UUCP (Dave Richards)
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Subject: Re: Abs. pitch, intervals, and other musings (was Re: Perfect Pitch)
Keywords: perfect absolute pitch
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Date: 26 Jun 90 20:00:25 GMT
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In article <1415@yenta.alb.nm.us> yenta!dt@bbx.basis.com writes:
>from a 440-A based well tempered scale.)  But even when I was five years
>[etc]              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

and later:
>a 'just' scale), not well tempered ones, as the just intervals are more
>[etc]                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The same phrase appears a few more times.  David, I think you mean "equal-
tempered", don't you? (ET: every interval between adjacent semitones is the
same ratio.)  "Well tempered" is some other compromise.

Dave