Re: tuning question

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brad
Beyenhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>>Certainly the vast majority of familiar well temperaments (e.g., 
>>Vallotti, Werckmesiter III) as well as "semi-well" temperaments (such 
>>as temperement ordinaire and varities of "modified meantone") use 
>>irrational intervals.

>Well, I'm assuming that he meant that they "stick [as close as possible]
to rational intervals."  In other words, it was an attempt to balance
"transposability" and acoustics; as contrasted with 12tET which lays fully
on the transposability end of the scale.

Thank you for explaining to me what I might have meant. :-)

  Hans Aberg