Johnny Reinhard's "quartertone +/- <50 cents" notation

Johnny Reinhard, in a private phone call, has suggested that I post a
terminology for his tuning system:

"quartertone +/- <50 cents" notation...

Might we include that definition on the Monzo website, and other
places as well??
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Joseph Pehrson

--- In tuning@egroups.com, "Joseph Pehrson" <pehrson@p...> wrote:
> http://www.egroups.com/message/tuning/12394
>
> Johnny Reinhard, in a private phone call, has suggested that I
> post a terminology for his tuning system:
>
> "quartertone +/- <50 cents" notation...
>
> Might we include that definition on the Monzo website, and other
> places as well??

Hmmm... but if Johnny actually uses quarter-tone accidentals, then
isn't it most efficient to call it 'quartertone +/- <25 cents'?

If he's using only the notation of the usual 12-tET, then I could
see the need for '+/- <50 cents', but with quarter-tone accidentals,
one need only go a maximum of 25 cents in either direction until
one bumps up against a different notation for an identical pitch.

I'm not saying that there's never any need for 'quartertone
+/- <50 cents' - composers like Wyschnegradsky used all kinds of
redundant spellings for identical pitches, because it displays
the harmonic underpinning. But I was under the impression that
Johnny was going for maximum efficiency.

Let's iron out this point, and I'll put it in the Dictionary.

-monz
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/homepage.html

--- In tuning@egroups.com, " Monz" <MONZ@J...> wrote:

http://www.egroups.com/message/tuning/12397

> Hmmm... but if Johnny actually uses quarter-tone accidentals, then
> isn't it most efficient to call it 'quartertone +/- <25 cents'?
>
> If he's using only the notation of the usual 12-tET, then I could
> see the need for '+/- <50 cents', but with quarter-tone accidentals,
> one need only go a maximum of 25 cents in either direction until
> one bumps up against a different notation for an identical pitch.

But, of course! How stupid of us. Duh.

So, unless Johnny objects, this should be the correct terminology!
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Joseph Pehrson