Re: Descending aug and dim intervals

"Steve Latham" <llatham@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Tom K." <tkorth1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> What is a "negative distance" in terms of musical intervals, Dave? 
>> Sounds a bit like like our late, unlamented "Diminished Prime"!
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> Hmm. What if, two people are playing a unison - or you have a synth set
up 
> to play two waveforms in unison. Then you detune one by lowering the 
> pitch. It seems that there's good cause for calling that a "dimini****ng"

> unison.
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Or if the strings of a piano note don't react the same way to changes in 
temp & humidity.  Happens all the time.  But rather than call it a 
"dimini****ng unison", I'd call it an "unison in the process of being 
augmented" - or better still, "out of tune"!
Tom