RE: TUNING digest 970

>The _vina_ has its large frets set in a beeswax mixture. This does not,
>however, make the frets very mobile (they are only reset when they fall
>out). K.S. Subramanian (in 1983-84) had his frets tuned as follows:

>1/1 256/243 9/8 32/27 5/4 4/3 45/32 3/2 128/81 27/16 16/9 15/8

So a Pythagorean chain of twelve notes from 8192/6561 to 27/16, but the
first three notes displaced by a schisma (2 cents). Ignoring this interval,
which is a bit too small for the Ensoniq VFX/SD, I happen to have programmed
this same tuning (starting on D) for an organ timbre, to represent the
schismatic tunings of the late middle ages. It's a Pythagorean tuning from
G-flat to B, which was the example given in the New Grove.


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John Starrett wrote:

> forgotten. I now have the barbershop tuning forum discussions properly
> formatted on my web page. I have had a little more time to read these,
> and there is some really interesting material (moving tonal centers for one) in there. Again, I repeat my offer to forward these forums as email to anyone who requests them.

Thanks John,I downloaded them. I wonder if I'm the only bbshopper who
subscribes to this list?

> Has anyone written non-"standard repetoir"ish xenmusic for
> barbershop quartet? I would think there must be some "out there"
> quartets that would jump at the chance to try something really radical.

John, there are some VERY creative writers and arrangers in the bbshop
community. And there is an ongoing war about how big the bbshop UMBRELLA
should be. The "out there" qtets do a lot of stuff that reminds one of
the HiLos or ManhattanTransfer but they always return(eventually) to the
orgasmic 7th for max RING.
I would like to see some of the top acapella groups compete in a bbshop
contest....I think they would have trouble qualifying for the top ten.


Ed Dotson
ldotson@sprynet.com


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