What I use for microtonality...

I'm a little late posting this, but here's my 968.83 cents:

1. Korg 05/RW - I use this mostly, 1200 cent resolution.

2. EMu Proteus Orchestral module - the resolution isn't as good
as the Korg, I don't even have it in the rack right now.

3. mid-'70's Gibson L-6S with a Roland synth pickup - I use
this for controlling the Korg. I've also been ear training
with Cakewalk, sine tones, a glass slide and an E-Bow. Handy
for open tunings too. Used with a pair of silver face early
'70's Fender Princetons.

4. There's a brand new fretless/nutless G&L S500 (read Strat) shipping
today from Manny's, NYC. It should show up here sometime in the next
few days. In a few weeks it will be fretted for 13 limit just
intonation (my own tuning). Let me know if anybody's interested
in getting in contact with Jon Catler at Mannys to get a frettless
guitar. I'll hook you up with his email address if you need it (It IS
on his Freenote records web page). Why use a krap guitar when you can
get a new fretless with a quality neck?


John Starrett writes:

>All-
> I have added the ressponses to my question of "what microtonal
>instruments do you play?" to my web page
>http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/microtone.html
> under Microtonal Instruments. I
>appreciate the response, but I also misplaced the first (first two?)
>digests after my question, and thus I have left some people out
>(Haverstick for sure, and I don't know who else). If any of you have
>saved the first two digests after my original question (sorry, I don't
>know the numbers), could you please forward them to me at
>jstarret@math.cudenver.edu

Sharing this info with the list is one thing, but I'm
not interested in getting my brains blown out when someone
forces me into my apt. at gun point to rip off my equipment.

Think about it a bit. Leave my list off your web page.


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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
N E W S F R O M C O R P O R E A L M E A D O W S
.... a sporadic update of changes to our site ....
http://corporeal.com
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Date: January 20, 1998
News: New home, radio show, concert, bits...

Well, it has happened, as you might notice in the header and
footer: we have a new home! Corporeal Meadows has officially
moved to it's own place in e-land, and will henceforth and for-
ever live at corporeal.com.

No, I couldn't hack a complete re-design. In fact, I *hope* I
moved everything correctly, so if you ever notice a bug, let me
know. We *do* have all the sound files back in place, and over
the next few weeks I'm going to start tweaking the sound since
we now have a RealAudio server. Zam!

I'll keep the old site up just a bit longer, and then keep some
files pointing to the new one, so no one gets lost out there...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

*FLASH* If you don't go to the site, here is something from Dr.
Blackburn:

"For those of you who haven't heard enough of me already of late,
please turn your knob to National Public Radio's Weekend Edition
this Sunday morning, Jan. 25 (times vary from region to region,
but usually 8-11 am). There you might hear me natter on about
my new book on Harry Partch: Enclosure Three (qv below). It is
up to the editor and the razor blade to make me sound stupid or
brilliant."

In honor of his shilling, I've got a new tribute to Enclosure 3.
You kids are smart; you'll find it...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

That is about it. I've got notice of a concert in April on the
site, and will be making more improvements over the weeks to
come. We all sincerely hope this will bring more of Partch's
work to the public, and help us all understand what it was and
what it will be. Let me know any thoughts you have...

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See you on the Meadows!
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}There's a brand new fretless/nutless G&L S500 (read Strat) shipping
}today from Manny's, NYC. It should show up here sometime in the next
}few days. In a few weeks it will be fretted for 13 limit just
}intonation (my own tuning). Let me know if anybody's interested
}in getting in contact with Jon Catler at Mannys to get a frettless
}guitar. I'll hook you up with his email address if you need it (It IS
}on his Freenote records web page).

Is it freenote@earthlink.net, or does he have a personal e-mail address?
Anyway, I thought these guitars were supposed to have an aluminum
fretboard, for the type of slide-guitar like playing Jon sometimes does.
You're not planning to put frets in an aluminum fretboard, are you (I'm
>imagining the horrible noises cutting slats into aluminum would make)?


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"Paul H. Erlich" wrote:

> >}1. Korg 05/RW - I use this mostly, 1200 cent resolution.
> >
> >Taken literally, this means you can't play anything smaller than an octave.
> >Yikes! Perhaps you mean 1 cent resolution?

Just trying to stay clear of that "what-interval-is" consonance
debate...

Seriously though, 1 cent resolution would be the correct term.



John Starrett wrote:

> All-
> David Beardsley has pointed out that a list of microtonal
> instruments associated with the names of the owners posted on the web may
> constitute a danger to the owners. I agree, and have deleted all
> indications of ownership of the instruments from my web page. Should any
> of you also wish that I would remove mention of your instruments from my
> page, I will do so. I apologize to those of you who did not want your
> names posted. To see the list of instruments, go to my page (below) and
> look under Microtonal Instruments.

Sheesh! I didn't want to start a panic. But I guess I did anyway...
it would probably be ok to stick email links in there so
if a web surfer had a question, they could direct it to
the right person. Just an email address, no names.


I wrote:

> }There's a brand new fretless/nutless G&L S500 (read Strat) shipping
> }today from Manny's, NYC. It should show up here sometime in the next
> }few days.

It showed up last night, now all I have to do is decide what the final
fret scheme is and stir up the cash to pay for the fret work. :O

>In a few weeks it will be fretted for 13 limit just
> }intonation (my own tuning). Let me know if anybody's interested
> }in getting in contact with Jon Catler at Mannys to get a frettless
> }guitar. I'll hook you up with his email address if you need it (It IS
> }on his Freenote records web page).

Then "Paul H. Erlich" wrote:

> Is it freenote@earthlink.net, or does he have a personal e-mail address?

That's it. He doesn't look at his email everyday. He's a pretty
busy guy. He's even on the list but he's too busy to take part.


> Anyway, I thought these guitars were supposed to have an aluminum
> fretboard, for the type of slide-guitar like playing Jon sometimes does.
> You're not planning to put frets in an aluminum fretboard, are you (I'm
> imagining the horrible noises cutting slats into aluminum would make)?

Sample it. Slow it down or time shift it or what ever those
sampling folks do. ;-)

Jon's fretless is one of his interchangeable fretboards.
I'm 99% sure it's stainless steel. Mine has a maple
neck & fingerboard. Originally of the three that he ordered from
G&L, I thought that only mine was maple and the others were
going to be setup with steel fretboards. Now I find out that
Jon's going to use one of them as a dedicated JI guitar.
I know he was talking to the G&L reps about stainless steel
fretboards but I don't know what came of it. And there's
a NYC musican who visited the
store who wanted the third one but hasn't been heard from since.
Anybody interested? It at least needs a nut to be fretless.
The nut didn't get cut because the jig at G&L that cuts
the fret slots also cuts the nut. [the same originally built
by Leo Fender - he's the L in G&L. Fender corp. or inc. had
a long - at least 1 year - delivery time and expensive too.
Can you say Custom Shop?]

Last friday we met with the luthier who's probably going
to do the fretwork and the subject of fretless came up.
He's done some fretless necks out on Long Island and he
isn't into the stainless steel fretboard. All the ones
he's done, he uses some kind of urathane (spelling?)
finish. He claims that it strengthens and reinforces the
neck. I don't know if this changes JC's plans.

JC has been mentioning the latest Pat Metheny "Imaginary Day"
because the first track features a fretless classical guitar.
So I picked it up last week and it's a trip. PM's a guy who's
known for sliding around a bit anyway. The album is named
after the lead track and is while I've always dug his playing,
Lyle Mays (the keyboard player) uses some synths that almost
seem glitzy. Then the composition takes a left turn that makes one
forget about any glitz.

With all due respect, I first heard about this track right here in
Tuning Digest from Neil Haverstick. Thanks for the tip Neil!
Didn't I write about how much I like the new CD?

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