Equal temperament vs instrument harmonics in music

[pbuk]

The composer/transcriber would have to choose which version of the chord is intended each time.

The recent posts are in response to this, where the keyboard is supposed to replace a composer.

So if today's processor speeds were applied, there is no reason not to have every chord sound as good on a keyboard as it does on a string

 

[Mister T]

The fundamental frequencies of the notes are separated by a factor of 2^(1/12),

They have a ratio of $2^{\frac{1}{12}}$.

 

[Algr]

The recent posts are in response to this, where the keyboard is supposed to replace a composer.

But it started with my comparison to 19-tet, which does not involve the keyboard making choices about what notes are intended:

I wonder if instead of trying to use 19-tet or other strange solutions, one could deal with the wolf interval by programming synths to change from one tuning to another as soon as the problematic chord was about to be played. What would we call that? Super-Pythagorean tuning?

If the keyboard were retuning based on what notes were being played at the time, it could easily get stuck in a situation where it had to retune a note that was already playing. That could be a secondary issue behind this:

By the way, a Norwegian composer (Eivind Groven) had special organ made that analyzed the chords and changed the just temperament base to match the chords. Since it was built using electromechanical relays, you could not play very fast on it, but it was an interesting experiment for its time.