TBX1 microtonal Tuning Box is on sale this month for 297 USD, (20% off the regular price of 349 USD). If you want to use a standard (non-native microtonal)...
... Thanks to you and Paul Ehrlich for posting these papers. "The Middle Path" paper is well-written and clear, although I feel that the whole basic idea of...
-Cameron Bobro wrote I feel that the whole basic idea of basing tunings on approximating Just intervals is of dubious artistic integrity. To each their own of...
... Using the interval you want, not an approximation of it. Accepting a thing for what it is, not what it's "supposed" to be- a taco is not a badly made...
... Sometimes constructing a musical scale with the exact intervals one wants produces other intervals one doesn't want. ... An interval might be an...
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0703868104v3 Not the genetic bit, just the survey data. It turns out G# is misidentified a lot. I'm not sure I...
George, all of your keyboards are marked copyrighted; Wendy Carlos and Wilson's keyboards the same. Can't somebody submit something for the public domain? I'm...
Carl, In your Wikipedia microtonal entry under Recent Microtonal Composers you list Johnny Reinhard and include mention of "Polymicrotonally" (sic). I presume...
... I'm definitely in favor of using the interval that I want. It just so happens that most of the time I want intervals that aren't exact integer ratios. And...
i am siding with Cameron on this one. The idea of making something out of something defective sounds like more work than necessary. Kinda like making a good...
... Obviously. But unless you're a hardcore serialist, where is it written that you must use all intervals in a tuning? If you're not going to use all...
... The only reason I can see for changing the octave is that you prefer the new sound. Tempering 2:1 to get a whole bunch of "almost- perfect" 5/4s for...
... This problem may arise even when not using each and every interval in a tuning. ... One might want to avoid a comma pump for example in a progression like ...
... integrity. ... intervals one ... The thing is, the "comma pump" is a feature of JI. I'm just not into the whole seedless-grapes and nippleless-Barbie...
... Look at it this way. Linear temperaments are not pretending to _be_ JI (except perhaps those few we call microtemperaments or nanotemperaments). They are...
... like ... practice. Hi Kraig, I'm not sure you would have known if you _had_ heard it put into practice. I expect some of Hermann Miller's pieces use...
... Untempered octaves sound great with acoustic instruments, but my taste for tempered octaves really took off when I tried a 1/7-comma meantone tuning with...
Obviously Gamelan scales can stretch octaves and many of the recurrent sequences can be used in a similar fashion. i was not so siding with the 'integrity'...
... I didn't think there ever was a problem, mathematically speaking. It looked more like an idea whose time had come (within a small community). Even...
I am looking for some info about the development of microtonality in Western music around 1920. There was a lot of quarter-tone talk around the globe then,...
Greetings, Arthur Fickenscher developed his Polytone's first iteration (German patent circa 1914). Later US patent circa 1940 (I can't believe I can't...
Graham, Nice list! Practical! Mark Rankin ... ____________________________________________________________________________________ Shape Yahoo! in your own...
Vishnagradsky? (or however his name is spelled). ... ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better...
... Hi Carl, Which keyboard diagram(s) do you want to use? You have my permission to use any of these for non-commercial purposes, and you may indicate this...
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