Re: [MMM] The Microtonal Instruments Lobbying Organization

THANK YOU JEFF!

Now I can get back to that wood.

GZ

"X. J. Scott" wrote:

> Recently there has been a large amount of interest in
> discussion about lobbying instrument manufacturers to
> include tuning capabilities in new instruments and
> discussion of what those features might be and how such
> persuasion might be accomplished.
>
> This is a discussion that may not be of general
> interest to all as it touches on political topics and
> behind the scenes work.
>
> It would be helpful to have a central repository of
> information on this subject rather than have it
> dispersed among many groups and across spans of time so
> that instrument manufacturers can have quick access to
> a site where these issues are navigated and links to
> useful resources are kept.
>
> Thus:
>
> /TuningLobby/
>
> To subscribe from this group, send an email to:
> TuningLobby-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
>
> Please join if interested!
>
> - Jeff
>
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>
> The Microtonal Instruments Lobbying Organization is a
> consortium of ethnic, folk, world, experimental and
> other practicing musicians advocating the inclusion of
> versatile tuning capabilities on digital musical
> instruments.
>
> Members consist of persons owning at least one
> retunable instrument, active composers and performers,
> instrument designers and music software architects.
>
> Activities:
>
> 1. Coordinating efforts to lobby manufacturers to
> include useful tuning capabilities.
>
> 2. Education about the dangers to native cultures that
> the homogenization and standardization of western
> tuning causes.
>
> 3. Discussion, debate, development and testing of new
> desirable features and algorithms of general interest.
>
> 4. Formation of tuning protocol standards documents.
>
> 5. Repository of useful information for manufacturers
> and designers to seek out practical information about
> tuning, and the location of various documents related
> to tuning of a nature directly of interest to
> implementers.
>
>
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