Re: [tuning] Keeper of the FAQ/Topics: nonoctave, nonjust, nonequal

Howdy all,

Daniel Wolf:
> However, I would like to invite some others to write FAQs. If
> you are totally unwilling to do it yourself, can you help find
> someone who could?

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> Jeff Scott -- QUARTERTONES; NON-JUST, NON-EQUAL TUNINGS
...

Hi Dan, thank you for helping us get started by making
this list of possibilities.

I will compile what I have on quarter tones and post it
and then ask Stephen Soderberg to help fine-tune and fill
in the large blanks since he is more knowledgeable than I.
I will also ask Margo to help me with the harmonic
resources angle (I recall someone saying she had posted
rather eruditely on this subject... I will try to find her
post and summarize it.)

Now I do fancy myself a super big expert on:

1. nonoctave equal tunings
2. nonoctave just tunings

And thus will be wrassling up the following:

Q: Nonoctave tunings? What do you mean?

Q: Nonoctave tunings? Are you out of your mind?

Q: I was told the octave is physiologically necessary
and have seen statements to that effect in a large
number of books and you think you're smarter than
those books?

Q: How do you respond to all the research that prove
that nonoctave tunings won't work?

Q: What are the well-known nonoctave tunings and
what do they have in common?

Q: What composers are working in nonoctave tunings?

Q: Have nonoctave tunings been used in the past and/or
are they commonly used in other cultures?

Q: What's this I hear about pianos all being tuned
all nonoctavely and stuff?

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Any way that will get me started -- I am claiming first
shot at all these questions as my own! I had not plannned
to address nonoctave nonjust nonequal because there are
many others far more qualified than myself.

However, I will look around and see what is written about
nonjust nonequal tunings and put together something to get
people started if someone doesn't beat me to it.

Sincerely,

-- Jeff