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Anybody know when the identification of Werckmeister III tuning was first identified in history? Barbour used it, but the use of the copperplate monochord to...
211 Mar 25, 2008
8:08 pm

George D. Secor
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Hello, I am teaching a class on Partch in a week or so, and I would really like to play the students US Highball. I can buy a recording, except that I can't ...
2 Mar 23, 2008
6:50 pm

Christopher Bailey
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The tuning group calendar is filled with events with daily repeats which are actually spam advertisements. Apparently yahoo thinks I want to see events from...
1 Mar 21, 2008
5:16 pm

Steve Morris
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Hi there, Okay, I'll just let you hear it. I believe this doesn't need any further explanation at all: http://download.yousendit.com/C8D74CF335427471 Petr...
9 Mar 21, 2008
5:15 pm

Caleb Morgan
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The 15% pre-order discount for six and eight octave Tonal Plexus keyboards has been extended until April 18, 2008. These keyboards will begin shipping in the...
1 Mar 21, 2008
6:46 am

Aaron Andrew Hunt
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The miniMOD prototypes page has been updated with a new design idea for a 19 key per octave module. The keys would be lever action, non- velocity sensing. See...
2 Mar 19, 2008
10:24 pm

Ozan Yarman
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... I never "persisted with" it. I had to play on it all the time on the practice-room and teaching harpsichords, at a school where the tuning was done by...
5 Mar 19, 2008
2:28 pm

Brad Lehman
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FYI. I was one of fifty in attendance last year. You and Dean or possibly some of your students at Montclair State University might be interested. Harry...
1 Mar 17, 2008
5:08 pm

John F. Sprague
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Re: Werckmeister (1698) Thank you for your thoughts! Tom, I agree with you. And yes, they were my words using the Archambault translation. Werckmeister...
13 Mar 17, 2008
4:35 pm

Carl Lumma
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While we're on the subject of Wikipedia pages about tuning ... I find it plain wrong that the page on "pitch space" makes no mention of Fokker, Ben Johnston,...
5 Mar 16, 2008
5:29 am

monz
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What is a RAT? Depending on your preference, you could say that a RAT is a "regular abstract temperament", or perhaps a "regular abstract tuning". Substitute...
1 Mar 15, 2008
4:31 pm

Herman Miller
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I don't know a better place to ask this so here goes... In the picture linked below... http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i234/Monkage/BentChordTheory.jpg ...it...
5 Mar 15, 2008
4:07 pm

Andrew Fillebrown
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Hi Oz, I only meant about me not being a keyboardist. You don't remember saying something along those lines when Ibo Ortgies was on the list? If not, I...
2 Mar 15, 2008
3:53 am

Ozan Yarman
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Maybe my article about just intonation harmoniums is of use for you (unfortunately it is in German): Karl Traugott Goldbach, „Arthur von Oettingen und sein ...
1 Mar 14, 2008
10:14 pm

karltraugottgoldbach
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I'll betcha Bach tuned his lute/clavier to 12 tone equal temp cause that's how lutes were tuned...Hstick myspace.com/microstick...
7 Mar 14, 2008
10:14 pm

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Not that I endorse Wolfram's computer-music, but I find the opening display of his website rather curious: http://tones.wolfram.com/ Every coloured strip on...
1 Mar 14, 2008
7:52 pm

Tom Dent
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Many of you who were on this list in the late '90s may remember a fellow named Bram, who posted here fairly regularly and had a good command of the material....
5 Mar 14, 2008
7:44 pm

Carl Lumma
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Hi Tunas! Following up on Paul Poletti's discussions of what we could even call Werckmeister VII tuning (unless I missed one along the way). I have deduced...
4 Mar 14, 2008
7:39 pm

Tom Dent
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Hi to all, Sorry to interrupt your most interesting debate about tunings and temperaments with a much more mundane question, but on topic I think. In the MMA...
25 Mar 14, 2008
8:13 am

Carl Lumma
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Dear Paul Poletti, et al. I would like to obtain a professional & elegant piano tuning wrench fitting several sizes of tuning pins, preferably German-design,...
8 Mar 14, 2008
6:08 am

Carl Lumma
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Hello all, I was happy to see just now that there is finally once again one single link to my tuning-theory work in Wikipedia. It's listed as a reference at...
10 Mar 13, 2008
8:03 pm

Carl Lumma
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MICROFEST The 2008 Festival of Microtonal Music S A C R E D G E O M E T R I E S www.MicroFest.org Harmonic Space I Ð Friday, April 25 8:00 P.M. concert;...
1 Mar 13, 2008
4:07 pm

bill_alves
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Don't ask me! http://music.princeton.edu/~dmitri /Ö...
4 Mar 12, 2008
10:19 pm

Carl Lumma
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For anyone who might be interested, I've decided to slowly start to try to auction off dozens of CDs via Ebay, most of which are unusual and experimental: ...
1 Mar 12, 2008
9:03 pm

daniel_anthony_stearns
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Hindoo scale: sa = 1 ri = 256/243, 16/15 = (81/80) x (256/243) Ri = 10/9, 9/8 = (81/80) x (10/9) ga = 32/27, 6/5 = (81/80) x (32/27) Ga = 5/4,...
1 Mar 12, 2008
6:00 pm

Paul G Hjelmstad
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I was told by a friend who is a native Dutch speaker from the Netherlands that the Dutch translation was so deplorable it should be removed. Moreover, the flag...
1 Mar 11, 2008
1:11 am

Aaron Andrew Hunt
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http://www.esnips.com/web/Whowillmakeapc-programofthis Regards, Gunnar...
2 Mar 11, 2008
12:14 am

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done for a concert of 60 1 minute pieces ( It is on only one channel deliberately which one can ponder) http://anaphoria.com/burmacries.mp3 6 lines all the...
2 Mar 10, 2008
3:30 am

acousticsoftombak
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(Crossposted to Tuning-L and MakeMicroMusic.) Recently, I installed Ubuntu Studio, which is the Ubuntu distro of Linux with lower latency plus a lot of free...
7 Mar 9, 2008
4:21 pm

Keenan Pepper
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Welcome to our world, Paul. I have been teaching microtonal music to public school children all week. Tuning is indeed vast, or is it "temperamenting?"...
5 Mar 9, 2008
3:46 pm

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