Pluses and minuses for IT

Here are the pluses and minuses :

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A) Playing with pure chords cannot be done with a tuning with 12 tones per octave without big comma problems. IT can be a new feeling for a keyboard player.

B)   IT may be most useful for improvisation and specially composed music for the tuning. With 2 harpsichords and 2 cembalists alternately playing there will be possible to find much original compositions from the years1500-1700.

C)    What I have found  exciting with IT is the great opportunities for cluster chords.

D)   IT has also an educational aspect, as it provides a great way to get acquainted with the problems of the syntonic comma, while IT  at the same time is providing a solution that greatly minimize this problem.

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A)   IT with 24 pitches has a fairly limited field to unfold, so that  little original material can be used. In comprehensive version (2 cembalists), there is much greater possibilities.

B)   The player who plays alone often have to change manual (or digital setting)

C)   There is always one tone on a «wrong» key, and this deviation comes on different keys depending on which manual (key) selected. But this also then gives a sense of intonation while playing, in a way keyboard players rarely do.

D)   Passing tones are also a problem, sometimes you may wish to have another pitch of a note instead of having to switch manuals, and sometimes the problem of passing tones can`t be solved except in a comprehensive version of IT.
The melody aspect is important and will be discussed HERE

E) Playing on a cembalo the manuals have different timbres and the cembalist must take this into consideration when improvising, composing or arranging original music. But this is not the tuning's fault.