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Vai and microtones

🔗Aline Surman <stick@...>

4/17/1998 8:08:21 PM
Drew...you mentioned Steve Vai using 22 on a record...in fact,
according to a 1993 Guitar World interview, he does, indeed, have 2 micro
guitars, one in 24 and one in 16...he said he used the 16 for a teensy
background part on his "Sex and Religion" album, but it wasn't any
significant usage. It bugs me that he has these axes, but doesn't use
them to drop the other shoe and make a CD with them as the feature
tuning. If a Vai finally goes for it, it will advance the cause of other
tunings by a great amount..Hstick PS Junko Shigeta and I had a marvelous
gig last nite in Denver, doing traditional Japanese music and music in 19
and 34 tone eq..we had a good audience, and a lot of musicians showed
up...