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GREATER FREEDOM ON THE OLD LINES 23beauties of " enharmony." How is one to reconcile the twoviews ? Further, " We have come to the day," Says a prominentessayist, " when the orchestra, and not the harpsichordor pianoforte, will be the basis of music ; when a conglomerationof instruments, mostly of unfixed tone, will take theplace in the mind of those of very fixed tone. The largeproportion of instruments of unfixed tone in the orchestraenables all kinds of harmony effects to be brought ofP whichsound harsh and disagreeable on the piano." Would RichardStrauss, with his wonderful enharmonic treatments, endorsethis? Scriabine might in theory, but in practice he usesF sharp and G flat promiscuously.Is music, then, condemned to be suspended ever betweenthe "duodecuple"the two opposing temperaments, or willscale decide once for all in favour of the equal division of theoctave in theory as well as in practice ?