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Buzz again

🔗Aline Surman <stick@...>

5/2/1998 9:33:47 PM
The reason I am bugged about Buzz and his intonation system is, as
Paul E. surmised, because I want to drop the other shoe and talk about
tunings overall, not just 12eq. I do a lot of freelance work, and most
all of it is in 12 eq...I have a Cort Flying V electric that stays "in
tune" incredibly...if I don't touch it for a month, I barely have to tune
it. My Pimentel classic guitar is also a marvelous axe, and is much more
"in tune" than most other gut strings I hear. Thus, I am quite aware of
the desirability of a 12 tone guitar being "in tune"...but, I also know
that these axes are in tune with the sound of 12 eq, not the pure
intervals. For Feiten to devise a system that helps working musicians
sound better on a gig, I have only good feelings...again, though, I
personally feel it's time that the music world begins to understand what
12 eq is, how and why it came into being, and that there are other
options. Unfortunately, the magazine editors that I am in contact with
seem uninterested in pursuing the subject...and that does piss me off,
because they make it seem like 12eq is IT, and it surely is only one
tuning out of zillions...Hstick