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
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