Just Tuning the Locomotive
By Douglas K. Rhodes
Brother Doug Rhodes, our member in Victoria, B.C., wrote to me that a sterling example of Just Tuning is the sound of the air horns on a train locomotive.
> It's a minor triad in Canada -- speeding trains have long been
> recognized in Canada as dangerous, and deserving of the ominous,
> threatening quality of a minor chord.
>
> In the USA, speeding trains are nostalgic, reminiscent of the "good
> old days," and therefore are given light-hearted, happy major chords
> for their warning horns. ... Fascinating, isn't it?!
>
> Doug Rhodes <drhodes@mail.islandnet.com>
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