Re: guitars

mclaren wrote:

> As mentioned in my previous posts, you can't really learn
> how microtonal equal temperaments sound until you play a
> range of 'em. Unless yo do that, you're apt to run off half-
> cocked and wind up convincing yourself of a bunch of things
> that just aren't true... For example, that recognizable perfect
> fifths only reside within a narrow range (say, + or - 5 or
> 6 cents from the just 3/2) or that (in Graham Breed's startlingly
> false words "[the equal temperaments without recognizable
> perfect fifths, 6, 8, 11, 13, 16, 18, 23] are musically useless."

I can't find the words you attribute to me. I assume this is another
misquote of what I said in

</crazy_music/topicId_238.html#238>

> Lastly, the most musically expansive and in all likelihood
> the richest musical frontier for microtonalist, namely, non-just
> non-equal-tempered tunings, are just out of bounds for a guitarist.
> Even if you can tune up the NJ NET scale your timbre's all wrong.
> You need inharmonic timbres to really take advantages of NJ NET
> tunings.

This is not true. I have a guitar fretting that is neither just nor
equally tempered. It works great. You can hear "Celestial Radishes"
at the Tuning Punks
<http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/72/the_tuning_punks.html> page.

> Other than that, though, the prospects remain tough for
> the microtonal guitarist.

The prospects are fine for microtonal guitarists, but we'll have to
go about it a different way to what you approve of.

So how much experience of playing guitars with different frettings
did you build up before writing this post? Are you going to upload
examples for us?

Graham