RE: Odds and ends

>>I don't usually concern myself with acoustic instruments, but
>>wouldn't a 19 or 22TET flute make more sense than a "quartertone"
>>one?
>
>In an ideal world, yes. But we have to contend with an international pitch
>standard of A-440 and 12-tone equal temperament. Quartertones are not a
>threat to this standard and have been widely used by twentieth century
>composers, unlike the other tunings. There is no pitch standard for 19- or
>22-TET. One could decide to set one pitch to 440 Hz, and in the case of
>19-TET, one could even call it A. But who would care, in this
>piano-keyboard-12-TET dominated world? The modern flute was not easy to
>design, and we would need another Boehm to come along and design new, more
>complicated mechanisms. In my opinion, this would be wholly worthwhile, and
>should have been done 75 years ago. But the reality is that we will have to
>contend with 12-centered acoustic instruments for the foreseeable future,
>hopefully with a growing population of players being trained in making
>precise deviations from 12-TET, especially multiples of twelfth tones, which
>yield 72-TET, essentially equivalent to 11-limit (and consistent through
>17-limit) JI.
>
>Anyway, Brian McLaren once mentioned that Ogolevets or some such Russian name
>proposed 22-TET early in this century. Anyone know what this was all about?


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