March 7 concert

Denver went micro as the Haverstick boys played a pretty mean set of
19 and 34 tone acoustic music at the Houston Fine Arts Center...about 100
folks showed up, and seemed to really enjoy what they heard. Loose but
very exciting, notes appeared like fireworks, often surprising the
players as well as the listeners...and that's just what I wanted to
happen. Thanks to Alex Lemski for supporting this music...and the people
of Denver...Hstick PS...a visiting microtonalist was on hand...Carl Lumma
stopped by on his way to the West Coast...we did our best to make him
feel at home...

Graham Breed wrote,

>}Now, on the meantone thread, I do now own a guitar and I'm thinking
>}about how to refret it. I've decided it has to be a meantone
>}temperament, with 19 frets per octave and a bonus fret at the top.
>}At the moment, I'm planning on a tone of 160.8 moct, which makes a
>}fifth of about 696.5 cents. Comments would be welcome, but I'm
>}fairly independently minded, so I'll probably go ahead with this
>}anyway.
>
>Why not go for 31-equal? Your smallest intervals will be virtually the same,
>you'll have the same tones on every string, full modulational flexibility,
>more and better 7-, 9-, and 11-limit harmonies, etc.

>>Why not go for 31-equal? Your smallest intervals will be virtually the same,

Of course then ALLLL intervals will be the smallest size, which is a
little more difficult to play. But nevertheless, yes, Paul is correct that
there are definite advantages to 31TET.