Daphnis and Chloe

Dear Tuning,

I wrote:

> But this seems not to be true of the Kyma flute.

Sorry! In case I confused anyone : of course I meant the Kingma
(Osten Brannen) flute, not a simulation of a flute using Kyma (the
digital platform).

I seem to have confused Johnny! ;-)

> When asked which instrument is the hardest by a young, naive individual.
> The honest answer is that they are all equally hard in the long run.
> While a harp string is easy to pluck, this easy challenge is compounded
> later on by the rapidity of of multiple harp simultanaities, artistically
> rendered...and invariably by memory.

No! you mean there's a learning curve to learning an instrument!?
Well I'll be darned.... and you've got to memorise! well, I didn't
understand the relevance of that before!;-)

> I honestly think it's not that hard to learn microtonal playing on
> conventional instruments.

Agreed - up to a point....but.... Last night there was a performance
of Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe on BBC Radio. And I thought to myself:
there's no way that something of this nature could be brought off
with conventional existing instruments, if it was composed in, say
32-ET (which can give, for example, a glorious mix of Western and
Eastern harmony...). No way. The thing would be completely fudged,
even if it were a whole orchestra of superstars... Ok, maybe you
could do it after 5 years of rehearsals...

But perhaps I 'harp' on....

All best,

Patrick Ozzard-Low


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