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Re: [tuning] Digest Number 771

🔗John Starrett <jstarret@carbon.cudenver.edu>

8/30/2000 1:50:36 PM

Joseph Pehrson wrote,

> Sure, if you want to play "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and transpose
through all keys in 12 or 19 or whatever, commas could be a problem,
if you want to return to the same place.

> But who really wants to do that??

Not really on this exact topic, but Haverstick and I played a company
party at the train station in 19tet (unbeknownst to them) playing jazz
standards, and for a lark we did Ragtime Cowboy Joe, modulating
up a fourth each verse through all 19 keys. As Neil would say,
"What a hoot!"