TUNING digest 1282

Carl Lumma sez:

> >Guitar fans would also find Crash Landing by the Catler Bros.
> >rewarding: fretless & 13 limit ji guitar and bass, jazzy blues rock.
>
> Guitar fans, hell! This album is one of the 5 or so best microtonal albums
> I've got. And I don't have any shortage of microtonal albums.

Post a list of yer top ten, I'll put it up
on Juxtaposition Ezine. Anyone (translation: list members) is wellcome.

The Catler Bros cd is mind blowing but in a totally different
class. Did you ever hear the La Monte Young Forever
Bad Blues Band "Just Stompin'" cd? I didn't get "it"
until I heard them live. Woooah!


Kraig Grady writes:

> Rod Poole who first used my 12-tone tuning Centaur found in the last
> Xen., now has expanded this into a 17-limit affair (22 frets to the
> octive with various open tunings). He has also done some compositions as
> "The Voice of the Bowed Guitar" with 3 just open tuned guitars that are
> bowed. I will update you when the recording is available.

So is he only using the 17th harmonic or is he using other 17 limit
intervals?

I'm really tempted to include the 17th harmonic in
my new guitar tuning, but I want to keep the costs down.


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From: Kraig Grady
Subject: Re: PLANCK CONSTANT
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>}I am hoping someone can answer this question. If planck constant states
>}that energy states can exist only in discrete steps
>
>Planck's contant is not the smallest unint of energy. It is the smallest unit
>of ACTION. Action is energy times time, or momentum times distance.
>
>}does this apply to
>}Frequency generated by a single physical system. In other words is a
>}glissando not a glissando but minute little steps whole number multiples
>}of a vibration detated by Planck Constant.If so, what is the octive
>}equivalent of this fundamental?!
>
>All frequencies are permissible in quantum mechanics. However, if you use the
>universal gravitational constant and the speed of light, as well as Planck's
>constant, you can derive a fundamental unit of time, the inverse of which is
>the fundamental unit of frequency. In superstring theory, which seems likely
>to emerge as the most viable candidate for a grand unified theory, all
>particles are like little loops of string, and thier first mode of vibration,
>I believe, is supposed to be at this fundamental unit of frequency. Of
>course, this frequency is trillions of trillions of . . . of trillions of
>vibrations per second, and has nothing to do with acoustics.


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From: "Paul H. Erlich"
Subject: RE: 19, 22, etc
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>If planck constant states
>that energy states can exist only in discrete steps does this apply to
>Frequency generated by a single physical system. In other words is a
>glissando not a glissando but minute little steps whole number multiples
>of a vibration detated by Planck Constant.

Based upon what I do know of the topic, here's the answer: Unlike in
light, there's no simple correlation between higher vibratory frequencies
in an audio system and higher energy. Light is an absolutely direct form
of energy, whereas sound is a much more complicated and round-about
physical manifestation of energy. It involves pressure in a medium, which
is based upon collisions of randomly-moving molecules in the medium, and so
forth. So you can't apply that equation to audio; the wavelength (nu)
term in "E = H nu" doesn't apply to sound waves.


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From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison)
Subject: Re: re 19, 22, etc
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>Unlike in
>light, there's no simple correlation between higher vibratory frequencies
>in an audio system and higher energy.

Ooop. Minor detail here: That would be higher wavelengths and thus
lower frequencies.


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From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison)
Subject: RE: 19, 22, etc
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