... At the Sonic Arts Gallery, one of the guitars we have that was re-fretted by Ivor Darreg is nominally in 18-tET, but has a moveable bridge so that Ivor...
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Joe Monzo
monz@xxxx.xxxx
Sep 6, 1999 5:42 pm
... Altho I really can't argue with Dale's second paragraph (and his main point), it should be noted that many people feel the urge to scale a large mountain...
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John Chalmers
jhchalmers@xxxxxxx.xx...
Sep 6, 1999 7:11 pm
Paul: We also generated at 25-limit table (in XH1), but I thought I sent Fokker the larger one. I just don't remember after all these years. "In tuneness":...
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Dale Scott
adelscott@xxxx.xxxxxx...
Sep 6, 1999 7:11 pm
... Art can and does make our lives better. Just because this is a side effect of its original intention doesn't make that fact unimportant. ... A spirtual...
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Kraig Grady
kraiggrady@xxxxxxxxx....
Sep 6, 1999 7:57 pm
Dale! I would rather explore the deepest hidden valleys than to scale the humorless peaks where nothing grows! ... -- Kraig Grady North American Embassy of...
4692
Zhang2323@xxx.xxx
Sep 6, 1999 8:48 pm
some relevant quotes in response to the elusive new microtonality search vs. "dog turd"y-ness going on in this list: excess is excrement. excrement retained...
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M. Schulter
mschulter@xxxxx.xxxx
Sep 6, 1999 9:05 pm
... Hello, there, and please note that under Pythagorean or 3-limit JI, the difference from 12-tet should be -4.1c. Maybe this illustrates the dangers of...
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Paul H. Erlich
PErlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Sep 6, 1999 9:34 pm
This has been mentioned before -- moving the bridge so that a non-12 fret is at the octave does _not_ result in an ET. Work out the math for yourself if you...
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Paul H. Erlich
PErlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Sep 6, 1999 10:28 pm
Robert C Valentine wrote, ... This scale was used quite a bit around 1450. Try the key of A major. Five of the triads are 2 cents off 5-limit JI; only the...
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Afmmjr@xxx.xxx
Sep 6, 1999 11:35 pm
It seems that Charles Ives envisioned an extended Pythagorean tuning for his music. Ives wanted sharps higher than flats. He states in his Memos on the ...
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Glen Peterson
Glen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 7, 1999 2:45 am
... Ahh... With the proper bridge placement, the fret spacing gets logarithmically smaller to the point where it converges on 0 right at the bridge. True...
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Robert C Valentine
bval@xxx.xxxxx.xxxx
Sep 7, 1999 12:16 pm
... Thanks for typing in what must be very old information to you. I hadn't been looking for ANY 5-limit implications in this tuning, so I wasn't listenning...
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Carl Lumma
clumma@xxx.xxxx
Sep 7, 1999 12:52 pm
... Why not? Did only the Astronauts benefit from the moon landing? -C....
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Joe Monzo
monz@xxxx.xxxx
Sep 7, 1999 1:19 pm
... Just wanted to point out again that in my post about Ivor Darreg's 18-tET guitar with moveable bridge, I was careful to say that it provided *pseudo*-17-...
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Joe Monzo
monz@xxxx.xxxx
Sep 7, 1999 12:01 pm
... OK, I have to admit that this is true, BUT... ... And that was exactly my point: that when an individual engages himself *deeply* with a great work of art,...
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Joe Monzo
monz@xxxx.xxxx
Sep 7, 1999 1:13 pm
... I got a whiff of that. Just thought I'd flesh out Johnny's comment with some numbers: If 'C' is our reference tone at 0 cents, then the Pythagorean 'B#'...
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Judith Conrad
jconrad@xxxxxxx.xxxx....
Sep 7, 1999 1:39 pm
Small comment on Pythagorean tuning -- i just built a keyed monochord, presumed early precurser to the clavichord, with twelve keys on it, naturals from b to...
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John Chalmers
jhchalmers@xxxxxxx.xx...
Sep 7, 1999 3:56 pm
To the best of my knowledge, the first person to use a moveable bridge to obtain more than one ET from a guitar is Erv Wilson who had a guitar fretted to...
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Rick McGowan
rmcgowan@xxxxx.xxxx
Sep 7, 1999 5:06 pm
... ... while the good stuff is archived for their grand-children....
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Afmmjr@xxx.xxx
Sep 7, 1999 8:41 pm
To read about Ives's predilections in tuning you must turn to the Memos, specifically to the chapter on the Concord Sonata. Johnny Reinhard AFMM...
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D.Stearns
stearns@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 8, 1999 12:15 am
[Joe Monzo:] ... No, I don't know - but I'd bet (I don't have a copy of it so I can't check) that it would be in the "Memos." One thing that I do seem to...
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Afmmjr@xxx.xxx
Sep 7, 1999 9:30 pm
Dan, I believe that Ives imagined a tuning that the piano could only approximate. He says so in this same chapter of the Memos. Finally, it makes sense to me...
4709
Afmmjr@xxx.xxx
Sep 7, 1999 9:41 pm
I just spent an incredible week in Amsterdam with Sieman Terpstra and he has been working on something very exciting. With me is his new book "Separating ...
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M. Schulter
mschulter@xxxxx.xxxx
Sep 7, 1999 9:50 pm
... Renaissance meantone: Linear and selective JI? Reflections of a curious keyboardist ... Hello, there, and this article grows out of some recent reflections...
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Leigh Smith
leigh@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 7, 1999 11:00 pm
Wrote Paul H. Erlich, ... Clearly there ... and perhaps ... become ... between the ... Actually if you examine the work of Scott Marcus and Habib Hassan Touma,...
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D.Stearns
stearns@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 8, 1999 3:04 am
[Johnny Reinhard:] ... Sonata on 3 Discklaviers (Yamaha) to get the full range of intonational implications. Incidentally, the AFMM performance of the Ives...
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D.Stearns
stearns@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 8, 1999 3:22 am
[Johnny Reinhard:] ... approximate. Yes, I would agree... I just seem to remember that there was more to some of these spelling curios than the inert...
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D.Stearns
stearns@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 8, 1999 9:31 am
[Luzius Lanrai:] ... people use for diatonic just intonation, who has scale steps of 9:8, 10:9 and 16:15. This does have 3 step sizes, but because the two tone...
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Gary Morrison
mr88cet@xxxxx.xxxx
Sep 8, 1999 7:42 am
... Well, yes, I realize that, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they don't require lower-temperature fire safes than those for paper. My question...
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Robert C Valentine
bval@xxx.xxxxx.xxxx
Sep 8, 1999 1:35 pm
... Not quite understanding the question, I'll first throw out some well known scales which have three step sizes (major, minor and augmented seconds) 1 2 b3...
