FAR MORE THAN A MICROTONAL SCALE...

>The point is that by this late date Partch's compositions had grown to
encompass far more than the accurate reproduction of pitch material, and the
actual means of performing the 'music' -- the instruments themselves, with
all of their flaws, inconsistencies, anomalies and performing
gesticulations -- had become as much a part of the work as the intonation.

While I may be cursed with some congenital inability to express my
thoughts -- in clear unambiguous terms through the medium of the written
word; This is certainly not the case for Mr. Szanto.

Respectfully,
Dan