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SY77 stuff

🔗Keenan Pepper <mtpepper@prodigy.net>

6/7/2000 7:42:34 AM

I just got my new (well, used) SY77! It came in a box confusingly marked
"live plants", filled with fake snow and popping wrap. I immediately went
out and got all the accesories for it, stand, bench, speakers...

Anyway, I already set the two user tunings to Partch's 43 (of course) and my
own 17-tone jazz tuning:

1/1 21/20 10/9 9/8 7/6 5/4 21/16 4/3 45/32 3/2 14/9 5/3 27/16 7/4 16/9 15/8
63/32

It's a chain of 5 complete 1-3-5-7 hexads and 21/20, for no particular
reason other than to fill the gap there. A 2/1 has a keyboard distance of a
perfect 11th, which reduces the range from 5 octaves to over 3+1/2. I
confess, I had to make a keyboard chart out of posterboard to help find the
notes.

Ice Piano's my favorite voice, but isn't it everybody's?

Stay Tuned,
JI Junkie
(I like that nickname 'cause it has alliteration.)