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In Reply to: As someone who was told he has perfect pitch and is a singer I find 'equal temperament' to be just plain WRONG posted by Timbo in Oz on November 13, 2011 at 02:29:42:
… an interesting musicological read on the subject: How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) by Ross W. Duffin.
I don't have anything approaching perfect pitch, but I am very (perhaps "overly" is more accurate) sensitized to the far sharp major third interval forced on us by the equal system. I have less difficulty with other intervals, but I hear/feel those dissonances, too.
The Duffin book ranges across various temperament systems that were in vogue from the Middle Ages onward. It includes a good amount of historical information along the way. My favorite neat-o fact was learning about the simultaneous usage of several systems among musicians at any given point in history, some favoring one system, some another.
-=- Charlie F.
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