Microtones in the news

Both Rod Poole and I received reviews of our CD's in the new issue of
Dirty Linen magazine (June/July 98); you will find them on p.70. It's
obvious the reviewer knows little about the subject, but did his best.
I've always felt if the press doesn't kill you or make you look stupid,
you've "escaped." I am grateful to have escaped again...Hstick

Also...the forum CD inches towards it's destiny. Starrett just
completed his tracks today, and I'm awaiting Alves' dat; I also have a
solo to overdub on Ernie Crews' piece, and it's off to the presses...

The impression I get is that tetrachords are _more_ common than the
diatonic scale. I think of it as being related to octave invariance.
The octave is the most consonant non-trivial interval, and so scales
tend to repeat about it. The most consonant intervals within an
octave are the perfect fourth and fifth, so there is usually some
repetition on that level as well.

That doesn't explain why Lydian and many Indian scales have sharpened
fourths up from the tonic, of course ...