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Re: [tuning] Henk Badings quartet

🔗MANUEL.OP.DE.COUL@EZH.NL

7/7/2000 8:17:45 AM

> The string quartet seemed very strong, but it really didn't
>seem all that "xenharmonic" to me, although I understand it
>is supposed to be in just intonation...
>Don't string players play a bit like that anyway??

Yes that's right. It is notated in 31-tET but he doesn't use
31 tones in a xenharmonic way, so I also suppose there's no
essential difference with JI. In one of the two fast movements
he uses an Euler-Fokker genus.

>My guess is that it might also be a little on the "traditional" side for
>the Kronos... but I could be wrong.

Yeah, you might be right.

Manuel