a thanks to all

Just wanted to say I have the utmost respect for all the folks who
play, theorize, or create microtonal music...it's a fun ride, and I feel
we are changing the way music is percieved...and that's no small
thing...keep it up...Hstick

Hello,

I've just joined up for this list, found it linked from 1/1, and am writing
a quick intro and hello.

I've been studying and/or dabbling in just and other intonations for many
years, along with concurrent compositional activity in 12 ET. These days,
I'm particularily involved with and interested in various "folk intonations"
that, when looked at closely, just happen to be just.

I play various stringed instruments including acoustic guitars, mandolins,
bouzouki, banjo, fiddle, tsimbl (eastern European hammered dulcimer), uke,
percussion... Microtonal excursions tend to happen mostly on acoustic lap
steel and slide resonator guitars, fretless banjo, fiddle, cumbus, 31ET
fretted dulcimer/zither like creature, overtone flutes, didjeridus and
various percussive items. At various points in the past, I've also explored
microtonality via both 19 and 31 ET guitars and a Yamaha TX-81Z, I no longer
have these instruments.

I'm currently trying to find an acoustic guitar to outfit with the Novatone
Interchangeable Fretboard system (after many years of looking for one, I
found a kit languishing in the basement of a music store where I teach, and
bought it). Does anybody have any experiences wih using this system, or has
it already been dealt with somewhere in the archives? I'd like to hear of
anyone elses' experiences with this, good, bad or other. One of these days I
would also like to find (or have built) a fretless guitar.

I look forward to meeting others on the list. That's all for now.

Seth

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Seth Austen
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email; seth@sethausten.com

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> Just wanted to say I have the utmost respect for all the folks who
>play, theorize, or create microtonal music...it's a fun ride, and I feel
>we are changing the way music is percieved...and that's no small
>thing...keep it up...Hstick

Hey, Neil, thanks for the post! A bunch of us were just discussing at
Microthon (in NYC) yesterday what a special decade it's been for tuning.
We're all part of something really cool, here...

-Carl