Brian, thanks for your questions — here we go toward some answers!
I like unaccompanied choirs, string ensembles, and horn quintets as much as the next guy, but except for that sort of exceptional small group of
fine-tunable instruments I wonder in what sense we may say that Just intonation is standard in Western music? The standard in recent centuries, of
course, has been 12-tone equal temperament, whose major third is some 14¢ higher than 5:4 and whose major sixth is about 16¢ sharper than 5:3 —
helping JI return as *a* standard in Western music is one of the reasons for creating an instrument such as the Nautilauta! |