Re: Conservation of Inertia

Joseph P.:

>> "So, certainly, the enharmonics are part of the larger picture,
>> including the meantones. Wow. Why don't they teach these
>> important concepts in music school??"

Daniel Wolf:

>> Inertia. They don't call them conservatories for nothing.

A _fantastic_ quote, Dan -- is it yours?
To paraphrase Partch:
"The intelligent and creative student will not
have to be thrown out of the conservatory because
he will not be there in the first place."

> You know, this does seem a little peculiar, though. If all these
> systems were in existence in the past, what happened to them? How
> did they all get thrown out so completely and 12-tET iron over
> everything?? It seems a bit exceptional...

HO!!! Don't get me started!!! Look down, yes you! Look down
at your console keyboard! What do you see??

QWERTYUIOP
...
or

',.PYFGCRL/=
AOEUIDHTNS-
:QJKXBMWZ

Based on a guess, I'd say that on this tuning
list, an unusually large number of us including
myself see the latter - the Dvorak layout. Where
in case you didn't notice AEIOU is under your left
hand home position and the most common letters
used in the English language are there, efficiently
placed under your right finger's home position. Which
is vastly, demonstrably, empirically superior in
every way. And only took me a few days to get
completely used to.

Anyway, you will NEVER get rid of QWERTYUIOP
just like you'll never get rid of seven white
plus five black (invented in when -- 1200 AD on
a drawbar organ?)

* "That's the way we've always done it!"
* "It would be too much trouble to switch over!"
* "We have too much invested in this system
to do it any other way!"
* "You're new around here, aren't you?"
* "Grasshopper, when you have learned
in perfection mastery of /the way/
of our discipline, you will have
the understanding to make changes.
Until then remember that I am the
master and you the disciple."
* "I have a PhD and therefore I am
right and I don't have to explain
why because I don't have time to
talk as slowly as you would
require to understand."
* "Have you been to divinity school?
Well the pastor has and so I think
it's obvious he knows more about the
Bible than you do so stop asking
questions and accept what he says.
God wouldn't have put the pastor in a
position of authority if He didn't
want us to submit to it."

Sound familiar? It should if you have ever
talked to anyone about music, tuning, typographical
and musical keyboard layouts, or worked at
any job or university in the world and tried
to get anything to change no matter how
logical and sensible it is -- there are
just too many sacred cows in _all_ our organizations
and bureaucracies to do otherwise.

But -- we still have to smash the golden bovine
idols! And do it with modesty, soft-spokenness
and a knowing, gentle smile! :)

Peace and love,

Jeff

--- In tuning@y..., "j scott" <xjscott@e...> wrote:

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>
> HO!!! Don't get me started!!! Look down, yes you! Look down
> at your console keyboard! What do you see??
>
> QWERTYUIOP
> ...
> or
>
> ',.PYFGCRL/=
> AOEUIDHTNS-
> :QJKXBMWZ
>
>>
> * "That's the way we've always done it!"
> * "It would be too much trouble to switch over!"
> * "We have too much invested in this system
> to do it any other way!"
> * "You're new around here, aren't you?"

etc... Jeff this is, indeed a very relevant and humorous post!

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Joseph Pehrson