Harrison/Lucy comments

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New LucyTuning site;
Particularly aimed at LucyTuned Lullaby sales for holiday gifts.
includes samples - still in beta mode.
Comments and orders welcomed.
We are now back in Hawaii (Big Island - Puna)
lucy&jk


This missive is to respond to recent Harrison/Lucy comments

1. Thanks Manuel. Yes Hawaii is Paradise after London.
If I remember correctly, it was Jorgensen, who got the pi
calcuations completely wrong, so beware and check his arithmetic.
The article in Pitch was mine, about ten years ago.
You'll also find a crit. from Doty in 1/1 a few years ago.

As far as I remember, Doty got his arithmetic correct, yet
insisted on comparing everything to integer frequency ratios,
which of course entirely missed the significance of
the beating.


2. For information on "pop" (commercial use of LucyTuning) in the
real economic music business see Arc Angel's website.

The Arc Angel home page is at
http://www.gold.net/users/du27/index.html

3. Thoughts about patents and copyrights.
Yes, I have patented, copyrighted and trademarked much of
my work associated with LucyTuning. The reasons are
strictly economic. To attract investment and commercial
credibility, in the present economic system the game
requires that intellectual property be protected.

When I am paid royalties, awards, fees, profits etc.
I use them for further work and my family's survival.
We must all be aware of the moral shortcomings of
the present distribution of wealth in present times, yet
to build for the future we live in the present and
in consequence I have to play by the economic rules
of the present. Amiga made great computers in their day,
yet now they are "dead", due to financial and economic
conditions.
I wish to avoid the same mistakes and develop a
sound financial base for the encouragement of
microtunings, of which there are many varieties.
LucyTuning is to my mind the most practical, flexible,
and logical development from 12tet as it can also
be used to "re-interpret" existing compositions
as well as providing a viable model for the future.
I respect the work of others at the "edge", and
value their ideas. My direction remains the same -
to replace 12et with a "better" system.
I therefore appeal to all interested in tuning to
encourage instrument manufacturers to improve
tuning resolution to benefit all of us.
The MIDI tuning dump seems like a good first step in that
direction.
lucy & jk from sunny Puna on the Big Island
Charles Lucy
17th Dec 1996 Pahoa, Hawaii 96778-2108

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