Another New Member

Greetings everyone!

My name is Russ "Bostjan" Hayes and I am in St. Johnsbury, VT, USA.
I work in R & D for the electrical power industry, but I am trained as a physicist, in fact, one of my favorite physics professors is a member of this group, but I did not know that he was until I joined...

I have been learning to play 19-EDO guitar for a couple years now, and I love it. I have been interested in tuning ever since I studied the pedal steel guitar with Vito Lafata some years ago. First I made a computer program that used the PC speaker and keyboard to an octave and a fourth synthesizer with the natural notes as the home key row, the sharps as the row above, the flats as the lowest row, and some alternate notes in the number row. Pleased with the results (the tones, not the program itself), I decided to purchase a 19-EDO guitar from Jon Catler at Freenote music.

I have a couple of videos posted on youtube, and a few mp3's posted on soundclick representing 19-EDO on guitar in which I record bass lines either with a fretless bass or an octave pedal. I'm looking to reduce my physical limitations with the instrument, as it provides me with ample challenge playing things like arpeggios and melody lines where I need to move hand position quickly. I'm not yet satisfied with my technique on the instrument- maybe less satisfied than I was when I initially obtained it.

I have composed just a few pieces myself- I've mostly spent my time arranging other compositions on the instrument.

I have also been studying just intonation theory for several years, and come up with a system that sets discrete interval steps into diminished, half, whole, and augmented tones (two of each), and it seems to work well as a pallette to construct a limited number of JI tones that expend fairly well beyond those mimicked by 12-EDO.

If you want to see or hear some of my stuff with 19-EDO guitar, check out Bostjan Zupancic on soundclick (my soundclick also has 12-EDO stuff and one 12/24-EDO hybrid song) or bostjan64 on youtube.

welcome!!!

I am very glad you joined!

Chris Vaisvil

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:36 PM, rhayes580 <rhayes580@...> wrote:

>
>
> Greetings everyone!
>
> My name is Russ "Bostjan" Hayes and I am in St. Johnsbury, VT, USA.
> I work in R & D for the electrical power industry, but I am trained as a
> physicist, in fact, one of my favorite physics professors is a member of
> this group, but I did not know that he was until I joined...
>
> I have been learning to play 19-EDO guitar for a couple years now, and I
> love it. I have been interested in tuning ever since I studied the pedal
> steel guitar with Vito Lafata some years ago. First I made a computer
> program that used the PC speaker and keyboard to an octave and a fourth
> synthesizer with the natural notes as the home key row, the sharps as the
> row above, the flats as the lowest row, and some alternate notes in the
> number row. Pleased with the results (the tones, not the program itself), I
> decided to purchase a 19-EDO guitar from Jon Catler at Freenote music.
>
> I have a couple of videos posted on youtube, and a few mp3's posted on
> soundclick representing 19-EDO on guitar in which I record bass lines either
> with a fretless bass or an octave pedal. I'm looking to reduce my physical
> limitations with the instrument, as it provides me with ample challenge
> playing things like arpeggios and melody lines where I need to move hand
> position quickly. I'm not yet satisfied with my technique on the instrument-
> maybe less satisfied than I was when I initially obtained it.
>
> I have composed just a few pieces myself- I've mostly spent my time
> arranging other compositions on the instrument.
>
> I have also been studying just intonation theory for several years, and
> come up with a system that sets discrete interval steps into diminished,
> half, whole, and augmented tones (two of each), and it seems to work well as
> a pallette to construct a limited number of JI tones that expend fairly well
> beyond those mimicked by 12-EDO.
>
> If you want to see or hear some of my stuff with 19-EDO guitar, check out
> Bostjan Zupancic on soundclick (my soundclick also has 12-EDO stuff and one
> 12/24-EDO hybrid song) or bostjan64 on youtube.
>
>
>

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Hi dude!

Mat Cooper (ixlramp)

Welcome! I've checked out your youtube stuff before, very cool.

On 11/9/10, ixlramp <ixlramp@...> wrote:
> Hi dude!
>
> Mat Cooper (ixlramp)
>
>

Hey Russ -

Good to see another new member. I started looking at your youtube videos - some good stuff. I lurk mostly but on a rare occasion I will say something. I own a 19-edo acoustic guitar as well as a LucyTuned guitar. I enjoy fiddling with them and see what kinds of cool stuff I can do with them.

Thanks for joining!

Jay

Quoting rhayes580 <rhayes580@...>:

> Greetings everyone!
>
> My name is Russ "Bostjan" Hayes and I am in St. Johnsbury, VT, USA.
> I work in R & D for the electrical power industry, but I am trained > as a physicist, in fact, one of my favorite physics professors is a > member of this group, but I did not know that he was until I joined...
>
> I have been learning to play 19-EDO guitar for a couple years now, > and I love it. I have been interested in tuning ever since I > studied the pedal steel guitar with Vito Lafata some years ago. > First I made a computer program that used the PC speaker and > keyboard to an octave and a fourth synthesizer with the natural > notes as the home key row, the sharps as the row above, the flats as > the lowest row, and some alternate notes in the number row. Pleased > with the results (the tones, not the program itself), I decided to > purchase a 19-EDO guitar from Jon Catler at Freenote music.
>
> I have a couple of videos posted on youtube, and a few mp3's posted > on soundclick representing 19-EDO on guitar in which I record bass > lines either with a fretless bass or an octave pedal. I'm looking > to reduce my physical limitations with the instrument, as it > provides me with ample challenge playing things like arpeggios and > melody lines where I need to move hand position quickly. I'm not > yet satisfied with my technique on the instrument- maybe less > satisfied than I was when I initially obtained it.
>
> I have composed just a few pieces myself- I've mostly spent my time > arranging other compositions on the instrument.
>
> I have also been studying just intonation theory for several years, > and come up with a system that sets discrete interval steps into > diminished, half, whole, and augmented tones (two of each), and it > seems to work well as a pallette to construct a limited number of JI > tones that expend fairly well beyond those mimicked by 12-EDO.
>
> If you want to see or hear some of my stuff with 19-EDO guitar, > check out Bostjan Zupancic on soundclick (my soundclick also has > 12-EDO stuff and one 12/24-EDO hybrid song) or bostjan64 on youtube.
>
>

Welcome aboard, matey!

I've been exploring alternate EDOs on guitar for the last 5 years or so myself, having tried 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, and 31 before finally getting around to 19, and I've gotta say I'm finally seeing why so many people love it. I'm thinking about purchasing a 19-EDO neck from Catler...wish he was still making the guitars! They're almost as cheap as the necks by themselves, so it seems like kind of a bum deal to buy just the neck for almost $600.

Anyway, dig your stuff on YouTube! More, plz.

-Igs

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "rhayes580" <rhayes580@...> wrote:
>
> Greetings everyone!
>
> My name is Russ "Bostjan" Hayes and I am in St. Johnsbury, VT, USA.
> I work in R & D for the electrical power industry, but I am trained as a physicist, in fact, one of my favorite physics professors is a member of this group, but I did not know that he was until I joined...
>
> I have been learning to play 19-EDO guitar for a couple years now, and I love it. I have been interested in tuning ever since I studied the pedal steel guitar with Vito Lafata some years ago. First I made a computer program that used the PC speaker and keyboard to an octave and a fourth synthesizer with the natural notes as the home key row, the sharps as the row above, the flats as the lowest row, and some alternate notes in the number row. Pleased with the results (the tones, not the program itself), I decided to purchase a 19-EDO guitar from Jon Catler at Freenote music.
>
> I have a couple of videos posted on youtube, and a few mp3's posted on soundclick representing 19-EDO on guitar in which I record bass lines either with a fretless bass or an octave pedal. I'm looking to reduce my physical limitations with the instrument, as it provides me with ample challenge playing things like arpeggios and melody lines where I need to move hand position quickly. I'm not yet satisfied with my technique on the instrument- maybe less satisfied than I was when I initially obtained it.
>
> I have composed just a few pieces myself- I've mostly spent my time arranging other compositions on the instrument.
>
> I have also been studying just intonation theory for several years, and come up with a system that sets discrete interval steps into diminished, half, whole, and augmented tones (two of each), and it seems to work well as a pallette to construct a limited number of JI tones that expend fairly well beyond those mimicked by 12-EDO.
>
> If you want to see or hear some of my stuff with 19-EDO guitar, check out Bostjan Zupancic on soundclick (my soundclick also has 12-EDO stuff and one 12/24-EDO hybrid song) or bostjan64 on youtube.
>