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Re: [tuning] Re:scoring in othe ETs - (was Lattice music - request for advice.)

🔗Alison Monteith <alison.monteith3@which.net>

7/3/2001 1:44:17 PM

Paul Erlich wrote:

> --- In tuning@y..., Alison Monteith <alison.monteith3@w...> wrote:
> >
> > I was under the impression that Johnny Reinhardt had managed to
> successfully coax multiple ET
> > music out of largely traditional instruments. Is this the case?
>
> Yes -- performed by himself and other _unusually_ talented and
> devoted professionals.

Well, we certainly have no lack of talented professionals here in Scotland. Devotion - perhaps
only leadership by example will nurture that element.

>
> > I'm also a bit confused as to why
> > you are proposing 72 tet as a standard if you think that it won't
> be easy to get accurate
> > performances in other than 12 ETs. Or is it because 72 and 12 can
> be easily related that this
> > makes 72 more accessible?
>
> Yes.

Good, that clarifies things greatly.

Regards.

🔗Alison Monteith <alison.monteith3@which.net>

7/3/2001 1:44:55 PM

Paul Erlich wrote:

> --- In tuning@y..., Alison Monteith <alison.monteith3@w...> wrote:
> >
> > I was under the impression that Johnny Reinhardt had managed to
> successfully coax multiple ET
> > music out of largely traditional instruments. Is this the case?
>
> Yes -- performed by himself and other _unusually_ talented and
> devoted professionals.

Well, we certainly have no lack of talented professionals here in
Scotland. Devotion - perhaps
only leadership by example will nurture that element.

>
> > I'm also a bit confused as to why
> > you are proposing 72 tet as a standard if you think that it won't
> be easy to get accurate
> > performances in other than 12 ETs. Or is it because 72 and 12 can
> be easily related that this
> > makes 72 more accessible?
>
> Yes.

Good, that clarifies things greatly.

Regards.