Re: Quicky about naming a chord

David Webber wrote:

>> If one should enforce 12-ET,
> 
> Enforce?
> 
>>  then it might be im****tant to to throw in some enharmonics excluding 
>> other intonations. The best way would be to develop specific 12-ET 
>> notation, where enharmonic exchange cannot be detected.
> 
> I have problems with all of this because I don't play a piano.   The 
> exact pitch of a note I play is therefore whatever feelks right at the 
> time, and usually I don't have time to anlayse it.    If you told me to 
> play *exactly* in 12TET I wouldn't be able to, and I have no idea what 
> tolerance I would need in order to play arbitrarily close to it.    I 
> don't just play 12 notes (and octaves) either - every one has its own 
> colouring imcluding the intonation.

So then it's not 12-ET.

>>> And diminished 7ths became *far* more interesting after the 
>>> ubiquitous use of 12tet.
> 
>> Quite on the contrary. For example, Beethoven used them a lot, and he 
>> writes them diatonically, not 12-ET.
> 
> That does not stand up as a logical contradiction of my statement.  All 
> it implies is that you believe nothing more interesting than Beethoven 
> has happened in the last couple of centuries.

All it means you wrongly believe dim7 is tied to 12-ET.

   Hans Aberg