Re: [tuning] Digest Number 1192

Hi Seth,

Just to say I'm interested in your FAQ on j.i. scales in traditional folk
music, and the ones that you have been working with.

I will be looking forward to reading it when it is done!

Robert

> Yes, I've got a "fantasy FAQ" that I'd like to write. My ongoing pet project
> is the occurance of JI or natural scale harmonies found in traditional folk
> musics of the world. My particular emphasis and expertise of study is in
> Appalachian and Celtic fiddle music, country/piedmont/delta acoustic guitar
> blues, and eastern European klezmer music, I also have significant interests
> (or obsessions) in French and Hungarian hurdy gurdy, Swedish nyckelharpa,
> fiddle and overtone flute styles, and eastern European and gypsy uses of
> overtone flutes, harmonic singing and jaw harps... The FAQ on this subject
> could easily draw on uses of JI in many other folk/world styles. Obvious
> examples include didjeridu (yidaki), gamelan, mbira and kora music...
> Perhaps folks with expertise in different areas would wish to contribute as
> well.

> This could take me a couple of weeks to put together, with everything else
> that is going on these days, but I'd love to do it, if there is anyone out
> there interested in reading about this subject besides myself.