Re: [tuning] The thing itself [alternate interfaces]

: [tuning] 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.)
>

Joseph:

I hope you don't mind my jumping in here. This is one area where the notion
of consistency becomes very useful -- when Erv Wilson mapped the
3(1,3,7,9,11,15 Eikosany onto a 22 tone keyboard, it fit wonderfully in that
each appearance of one of the primary just intervals was mapped onto an
identical interval of keyboard space. This is enormously useful in orienting
oneself to the keyboard.

Of course, by virtue (or vice) of not being equal tempered, the converse --
that each keyboard interval has the same acoustic interval -- is not true,
but I haven't been greatly bothered by this. In fact, it's a bit akin to
navigating around a temperament with a wolf, only this one has several
wolves.