The thing itself [alternate interfaces]

> Joseph, you must understand that the way these scales (hexany, decatonics,
> etc.) fall on the keyboard is something determined by Scala, and completely
> foreign to the considerations of the inventors of these scales.

Hi Paul...

I suppose you make a very good point here, which is probably why the
"interfaces" or instruments developed by people like Harry Partch or
Kraig Grady are so interesting... they are a physical manifestation of
the tuning itself... (obviously, diamond marimba, etc.)

> many arrangements that simply reshuffle 12-tET pitches. For
> example, since you enjoy the effect of a 6-tone scale, with "tritones"
> sounding like "octaves", you could explore all kinds of 6-tone scales found
> within 12-tET

I see what you're saying... I could basically map ANY 12-tET pitches to
the first 6 notes...

> I'm surprised that my paper is so unclear to you. Is it that poorly written?
> In any case, the idea is that 22-tone equal temperament is mapped to the
> keyboard one note at a time ascending, except that the key "B" is skipped
> over. The obvious result is that two keyboard octaves sounds like a regular
> "octave",

I'm getting the two "Es" as not being mapped... at least when I use the
two22.kbm mapping file from Scala

Whoops... I just see another one Erl22.kbm... maybe that's the alternate
I'm looking for...

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