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Error Condition Re: Klezmer tunings

🔗REUBEN EWAN JACOBS <rjacobs@...>

3/31/1998 5:57:55 AM
> Hello, my name is Reuben Jacobs. I'm a 2nd year BSC Musical Instrument
> Technology student at London Guildhall University and I am starting a
> project in which the aim is to retune a MIDI keyboard to a
> tuning other than equal temperament and to then create a MIDI file of a
> composition written in this tuning.
>
> The tuning I would most like to use is a Klezmer tuning. However, I have
> had difficulty finding such a tuning written down. I would therefore be
> very grateful if someone could send me details of a Klezmer tuning and a
> composition written using it (I was told of this address by my teacher
> Tony Salinas).
>
> During my research into this subject (in the very few books that I have
> found which mention Klezmer) I have started to get the feeling that maybe
> Klezmer tuning is very close to equal temperament. I'm sure taht someone
> will know. If this is the case I would really appreciate if somebody
> could send me deatils of another Jewish tuning (such as a Greek,
> Iranian, Yemeni, Landino, Turkish etc tuning) which is noticeably different
> from equal temperaemet.
>
> If someone does manage to help me I will more than be happy to send them a
> copy of my MIDI file when my project is complete. THANKYOU.
>