[PD] tunetof - an mtof for alternative tunings

[Chuckk Hubbard]

On 4/11/06, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
>
> > Lots of Western-centric musicians boast that the microtonality of more
> > primitive traditions could only have worked in single-line melody, and
> > that Western music, with its more sophisticated tonalities, made these
> > tunings obsolete.  I believe that, with computers, the harmonic
> > possibilities opened up by other tunings could dwarf those of 12-tET.
>
> Who hears the difference?
>
> I think that lots of people are dwarfing the possibilities of all of the
> above just by singing out-of-tune, daily.

I hear the difference in Toby Twining's Requiem:
http://www.justintonation.net/soundfiles.html#twining
It's not so easy to hear on piano: they are designed to mask already
being out of tune.
I'm not just talking about slightly different tunings of the 12-tone scale.

-Chuckk