just messed around on a keyboard a bit and i can't unhear it now. major thirds in equal temperament sound off 🤢 can't believe i've been playing "nervous, agitated" thirds on a piano my entire life
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the upshot is that equal temperament makes fifths sound very good (2 cents off from just) which might explain why i like 9th chords so much (three fifths)
gonna fuck around with just omitting thirds from chords for awhile now
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One thing you may appreciate especially now is that barbershop style singing is done in just temperament, very pure harmony. youtu.be/Qo_N9_ZFBhs
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I dable in pedal steel guitar, it's common to lower the 3rds about 15 cents...my korg tuner even shows a mark for lowered 3rds
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time to get into alternative tunings. maybe some microtonality? maybe some strange connection to the riemann zeta function? en.xen.wiki
i guess it's an interesting q what tuning a guitar ends up in... each string has a fixed frequency ratio among other notes on the same string but you can mess around with the ratios b/w strings. if you tune to EADGBE... a fourth, a fourth, a fourth, a third, a fourth... hmm
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If you hear purer fifths, it will make a piano's fifths sound "off" after. As a bowed string player, we can adjust our tuning of fingered (non-open string) notes, and get purer fifths. So a string quartet accompanying a small choir will naturally use the less tempered tuning.