Re: [tuning] "never been tried," patented way of working!!

Graham wrote:
>
> > Anything that gets you away from 12-thinking would be good. 1/8-tones
> sound
> > like a generally bad idea for this.

Joseph Pehrson wrote:
> Johnny Reinhard specifically REQUESTED 1/8 tone tuning for his piece and
> he's a MICROTONAL SPECIALIST!! That just shows us how far we have to go
> in order to get traditional performers to do this stuff. Johnny and I
> don't even have a completed set of woodwind fingerings for 1/8 tones,
> much less anything extremely exotic. My presumption is that the
> woodwinds are going to be about the hardest of all to "convert" just
> because of all the fingering problems...

Actually, I asked Joseph to write in 48TET for the following reasons.
1. I wanted to lead Joseph deeper into microtonal composition.
2. I do have all of 48TET worked out, but not yet in a releasable form.
Joseph and I are working on it together.)
3. 48 is a large enough number to have an enormous number of possibilities,
especially in a purely melodic context.

Joseph, you are wrong to presume that any and all tunings are doable on
woodwinds. In fact, they may even be more reliable on woodwinds. Any tuning
can be played on any instrument. only very few instruments are limited do to
their construction design.

Johnny Reinhard

In a message dated 5/29/00 7:52:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Afmmjr@aol.com
writes:

> Joseph, you are wrong to presume that any and all tunings are doable on
> woodwinds.

Ooops, I mean you would be correct to presume that any and all tunings are
doable on woodwinds. Really, it's not hard.

Johnny Reinhard