microtonal guitars etc

Agreed that someone famous going microtonal would give an enormous
boost to this whole scenario...as a matter of fact, monster fusion
guitarist Dave Fiuczynski has been playing fretless for a while, and has
just started using 24 eq as well. He's not as well known as, say, Mike
Stern, but does a lot of NYC/Europe gigs, and has played with a lot of
well known folks...that's a good thing. Funny, though..he just did a
lesson for Guitar Player, talked about this weird mode hes uses, but
never mentioned alt tunings. On that note, none of the major music mags
seem interested at all in this...although JazzTimes did a recent profile
on Joe Maneri that was very well done.
Seth, you mentioned tuning with 5ths for JI guitars...I have recently
tuned one of my fretlesses to a pure tuning of 1/1, 5/4, 3/2, 7/4,
35/32, and 21/16...I performed a new piece in this tuning, and it works
very well. I also tuned my fretless acoustic to a koto pentatonic scale,
which was quite nice for "Sakura." Tuning to the scale you're playing
is, of course, what Indian musicians do...I like it because it also
means I have the harmonics of the scale at my disposal, and it enables
me to hear/find the notes I want easier. I plan on getting a 9 string
fretless someday...it would open up new doors. In fact, there's a very
good guitarist in LA, Paul Livingstone, who has a 9 string
fretless..anybody heard him? I like this sort of thread, because it
means we're looking at ways to take these concepts to the larger world
of music....Hstick

--- In tuning@egroups.com, "Neil Haverstick" <STICK@U...> wrote:

> I like this sort of thread, because it
> means we're looking at ways to take these concepts to the larger
world
> of music....Hstick

Neil,

I'll second that motion! It certainly represents a valid tangent of
the microtonal mission.

Jacky Ligon

--- In tuning@egroups.com, "Neil Haverstick" <STICK@U...> wrote:
> On that note, none of the major music mags
> seem interested at all in this...although JazzTimes
> did a recent profile on Joe Maneri that was very well done.

I know you're talking about an interview with
well known microtonalist, but my product review
of a G&L/FreeNote S-500 12-tone Plus ran in the Jan. 2001
issue of Guitar World. Guitar World is the 3rd
best selling music magazine, Rolling Stone is
#1 and Spin #2.

In recent interviews by Vic Garbarini in GW,
(George Harrison, 1/2001 and Jeff Beck, 2/2000)
he asks each of them both a question about microtones.

In a recent issue of Keyboard, the editors are
asked what Just Intonation is. They keep it simple,
equating JI intervals with rational intergers. (I think,
I don't have the copy with me.) I wouldn't
have been so quick to run out and buy a Korg
MS2000R if Keyboard didn't mention it was tunable.

Jon Catler told me this afternoon that a recent
issue of Acoustic Guitar has an article about
some Northern European microtonalists. I'll
be checking out the newstand for that one later
today.

Guitar Player reviewed the Godin acoustic fretless
recently.

Electronic Musican ran an article on microtonality
sometime in the past few years. They didn't get it
totaly right, but at least they ran it.

It ain't all that bad, Neil.

David Beardsley