Re: [MMM] Viols

Ben Johnston for one has written quite a bit of very difficult music for strings and the 31-tone school had a fine violin duo who could play such works too.
Everyday it seem more and more players are tackling such things, which mean its is just a matter of time.

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> I was wondering if anyone on the list plays, or knows someone who > plays, the viola da gamba? As the viol family employs moveable frets, > it would seem like a good place to start composing new, microtonal > works for strings. The fretting would allow the accurate use of > different temperaments and various just tunings.....
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> Also, what exactly would it take to form a microtonal music publishing > collective for composers on the list? Someplace where new works could > be compiled for download by interested conductors and performers?
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> -- Kraig Grady
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At 11:42 AM 5/3/2006, you wrote:
>I was wondering if anyone on the list plays, or knows someone who
>plays, the viola da gamba? As the viol family employs moveable frets,
>it would seem like a good place to start composing new, microtonal
>works for strings. The fretting would allow the accurate use of
>different temperaments and various just tunings.....

An acquaintance of mine:
http://www.baroquenorthwest.com/blendulfbio.html

-Carl