Hi to all on the list. My name is John Hoadley. I am currently studying for a B.Sc. in Musical Instrument Technology at the London Guildhall University. My...
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Paul H. Erlich
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Apr 28, 1999 7:00 pm
I didn't get the latest digest, Joe, so if this doesn't get posted, will you do that for me? I wrote, ... Joe Monzo wrote, ... That's not true; your prime...
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Paul H. Erlich
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Apr 28, 1999 7:21 pm
Ditto on this one. Joe Monzo wrote, ... It is crucial that your listening tests involve playing actual music, rather than just going up and down the scale. You...
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Ara Sarkissian
cypriot@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 28, 1999 7:50 pm
I remember seeing bassoon fingerings for 19 or 31 tone equal temperaments on the web a while ago. I think Paul Erlich pointed them out. Does Paul or anyone...
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monz@xxxx.xxx
Apr 28, 1999 11:00 pm
I accepted Microsoft Excel's rounding of the large fractions too readily and too unthinkingly in my earlier posting on the new interpretation I have of...
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Afmmjr@...
Apr 29, 1999 10:41 am
Dear Ara, The 31-Tone ET chart that I devised is in PITCH I:4, as well as on the internet (search under bassoon and my name). It was also published in the ...
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Gary Morrison
mr88cet@xxxxx.xxxx
Apr 29, 1999 7:56 am
... In case that title sounds familiar, "Awakening" is the earlier version of my contribution to Neil's Tuning-List CD....
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Paul Hahn
Paul-Hahn@xxxxxxx.xxx...
Apr 29, 1999 2:28 pm
... You're kind of going about it the long way around calculating cents and all--if it's justly tuned, you should be able to just measure the fret positions...
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monz@xxxx.xxx
Apr 29, 1999 1:50 pm
[Kraig Grady, TD 158.6] ... Interesting... exactly what I found myself in my own listening tests. [Paul Erlich, TD 158.10] ... Sure, I like the scale with...
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monz@xxxx.xxx
Apr 29, 1999 2:26 pm
[Paul Erlich, TD 158.9] ... ??? On my lattice 15:8 and 6:5 have exactly the same complexity, in terms of a direct vector lattice metric: both have one rung on...
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Paul Hahn
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Apr 29, 1999 2:33 pm
... I don't know exactly what that URL was, but here's a place to start looking: ...
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monz@xxxx.xxx
Apr 29, 1999 2:54 pm
... That last line is incorrect, and should be: d(p(x-1)) = 3^((x-1)*2+2) or, in most simplified form, d(p(x)) = 3^(x*2+2) Joseph L....
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monz@xxxx.xxx
Apr 29, 1999 3:02 pm
[Drew Skyfyre, TD 158.7] ... In general, that's true. But there is a section in 'Lumpy Gravy' that sounds like it was spliced in from a tape of a Partch piece....
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Drew Skyfyre
skyfyre@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 29, 1999 11:38 pm
Hey Ara, You shoulda just used Altavista, the first 3 results : 1. FINGMICR Heckel-System (German) Bassoon Microtonal Fingerings by Note Name. EXIT. Home page....
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John Chalmers
jhchalmers@xxxx.xxxx
Apr 29, 1999 12:19 pm
While there are indications that archaic Greek scales spanned less than the octave, certainly the octave was known in practice by the 4th century, if not the...
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Paul H. Erlich
PErlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Apr 29, 1999 7:58 pm
... Paul Hahn wrote, ... I'm glad it doesn't -- that means my original "wormhole"; intuition was correct. ... Yup, wormhole=spacewarp. ... Well, if you started...
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Paul H. Erlich
PErlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Apr 29, 1999 8:05 pm
... Cents don't go linearly with length -- if they did, a standard guitar would have equally-spaced frets. Instead it is the ratio of the fret-to-nut distance...
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perlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Apr 29, 1999 11:11 pm
Paul Hahn wrote, ... Wait a minute, those aren't right. The axes are not perpendicular. We might not need this spacewarp/wormhole after all -Paul E. from home...
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John Starrett
jstarret@xxxx.xxxxxxx...
Apr 30, 1999 4:16 am
not tuning related, but worth a listen http://www.ukans.edu/cwis/units/kanufm/public_html/retro/retrolisten.htm John Starrett ...
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monz@xxxx.xxx
Apr 30, 1999 8:35 am
[Paul Erlich, TD 158.9] ... ??? On my lattice 15:8 and 6:5 have exactly the same complexity, in terms of a direct vector lattice metric: both have one rung on...
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monz@xxxx.xxx
Apr 30, 1999 9:21 am
As promised, an 'octave'-specific table of some ratios ranked according to complexity by my lattice metric formula: 2/1 2.0 3/2 4.8 7/6 5.9 6/5...
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monz@xxxx.xxx
Apr 30, 1999 9:36 am
... In all fairness to Herlinger, I must say that the translation of Marchetto is actually quite good and very accurate. The only real improvement, at least...
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Paul Hahn
Paul-Hahn@xxxxxxx.xxx...
Apr 30, 1999 11:20 am
... Yes, they are. Would you like me to derive them for you? ... And I didn't assume that they were. Look again. See the "2 * "? --pH...
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monz@xxxx.xxx
Apr 30, 1999 12:08 pm
[Paul Erlich, TD 159.11] ... Look at 'D'alessandro, like a hurricane' on the Wilson Archives: http://www.anaphoria.com Erv describes and draws there (Figure...
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Afmmjr@xxx.xxx
Apr 30, 1999 2:07 pm
The big question about Marchetto is: was he describing the music of the Trecento Period (1300's in Italy) or was he being speculative? If he was describing...
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John Starrett
jstarret@xxxx.xxxxxxx...
Apr 30, 1999 2:35 pm
http://idrs.colorado.edu/bsnfing/fingmicr.htm John Starrett http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret...
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Afmmjr@xxx.xxx
Apr 30, 1999 7:34 pm
The web site for the American Festival of Microtonal Music was incorrectly spelled out. The site is at: http://www.echonyc.com/~jhhl/afmm Johnny Reinhard AFMM...
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perlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Apr 30, 1999 7:53 pm
I wrote, ... Joe Monzo wrote, ... Yes but you were just advocating not this city-block metric but a Euclidean metric (in which you would have to use the...
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perlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx...
May 1, 1999 12:30 am
Joe Monzo wrote, ... I've noticed that too. Emil Richards is listed as a percussionist on the album, but Partch is credited nowhere. Could Zappa really have...
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David Beardsley
xouoxno@xxxx.xxxx
May 1, 1999 12:39 am
... I know this is a wild concept...but how about playing slide or fretless? A bit of ear training couldn't hurt! -- * D a v i d B e a r d s l e y *...
