Re: [tuning] Question for Johnny Reinhard dance

In a message dated 6/8/01 2:07:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, joemonz@yahoo.com
writes:

> His name is Donald Bousted. He is associated with Patrick Ozzard-Low,
> who was just posting here again last week after a very long absence.
> You can look up Ozzard-Low in the list archives and on the web, and
> you'll find some stuff.
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>
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Donald is a good friend. He heard me in Amsterdam and is trying to have my
solo for recorder, "Eye of Newt," performed. He writes regularly for
recorder duo in quartertones. He's a good man. But that does not mean that
I need agree to his estimation of what a particular musician can hear.

This list has oft been criticized for its mathematic bent. Frankly, I have
always seen it as mistrustful of its musical senses. Experiential knowledge
of music supersedes book reading of music, from a musician's point of view.
Much of music has traditionally been labeled ineffable. Well, we have come a
long way.

For example I can pick out the exact frequency on my bassoon to match, blend
or overtake whatever is called for. I can't tell the list "how" this is
done. It is just done, repeatedly. It's not like claiming to bend a spoon
with my mind like "psychics" have said before.

Frankly, you guys should have faith. Faith that the people that move you
musically can do so because of mysteries that they possess. And I am telling
you all that I hear and perform finer than research has suggested. Call it
anecdotal evidence.

I'll never forget a particular 17-year old singer at a summer camp who could
match my microtonal pitch as I improvised faster and faster, more and more
eclectically. She's the best I ever found...no perfect pitch as well. It's
a different type of ear, perhaps than the usual, but not so surprising in
lieu of the existence of such things as "perfect pitch" and "synaesthesia."
Hey, you don't have to believe me.

Johnny Reinhard