Re: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Just Intonation and Difference Tones

["Tim Moyer" <wmharps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pierre wrote:
> In the olden days, harmony was king (no tuners though, was inexact 
> as done by ear). 

If the implication here is that tuning by ear is inexact, I beg to 
differ.  The human ear is capable of detecting some pretty small 
differences in pitch.  One of the beauties of just intonation 
schemes is that once a reference is set the rest of the tuning can 
be done completely by ear simply by listening to the intervals 
between the notes.  Of course, you can't tune to equal this way 
unless you have a pitch reference for every note (like a set of 
tuning forks or a tuner), but you can tune the notes relative to 
each other quite easily.

-tim