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From: suhre@trwrba.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Absolute Pitch vs Absolute Keys
Message-ID: <749@trwrba.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-May-84 13:09:21 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 17 13:09:21 1984
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"Normal" tempering rather than "equal" tempering will necessarily
give every key signature a slightly different quality because of
the differences in beats between the various notes and their 
harmonics.  I think that the original composers may have taken
that into consideration in their compositions.

Save me from equal tempering!

Maurice

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