Thank You Very Much

Thank you very much for your kind response. John Chalmers is awesome,
and I will definately pick up a copy of "Divisions of the Tetrachord. I'm
just a first year student
here, and I plan to make a Kithara as my winter term project. I've made
several before, but I plan to add an "arithmetically progressed" fretboard
based on 16/16 utonality. Although I am quite a newcomer, I still
find the modal approach to harmoniai more worthy than the verbose syntax
of the volume in which it is expounded. I think that such phenomena as
the perfect fourth interval that is being "transposed" throughout the
series of modal harmoniai, the removable bulbs on auloi, which can be
stacked on one another, and the ease of an early human to construct an
arithmetically proportioned instrument to be very valid points. The
fact is, though, it's just a theory, and I would never debate with you,
who evidently have more experience in the whole field of Just Intonation
and tuning. Nevertheless, I plan to research and critically restudy KS
book.
Along with classics at Oberlin, I am pursuing a major in
TIMARA/ComputerSci. I would like to write a user friendly just intonation
program that includes many ethnic models as well as extended Partch
theories. The keyword is user friendly- I would like to make it possible
for the most amateur to explore these possibilities, but yet it wouldn't
be a toy. Do you think this is a noble cause?
And finally, what kind of jobs do all of you "tuners" have? What kind
of tuning related careers would be open to me when I leave college?
Thanks for living with my naivete.

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[Peter Blasser, Oberlin College Mailroom Box #277, Oberlin, Ohio ,.
[Peter.Blasser@Oberlin.edu . . . .
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>I think microtonality could have a very definite demand, if infused into
>what is termed pop music. I think that experimental high level
>compositions are very intersting, but I am surprised that no one really
>works with simple popular forms.

There are, by the way, several microtonal recordings with at least a
fair amount of poppish appeal. Although he performs in a wide variety of
styles, Neil Haverstick's first CD is mostly in an R&B style. Also Elaine
Mullen (formerly Elaine Walker) has done quite a bit of microtonal "techno"
music. I don't claim to be an expert on Jon Catler's music, but I think I
recall that at least some of it has a fair amount of pop appeal. That
strikes me as pretty much true of Paul Fly's music too.

Also, "Other Music" (the folks who head up the Just Intonation Network)
once characterized their music as "polyrhythmic pop tunes with a long
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