Re: Digest Number 10

> For example, we've recently chatted about several kinds of meantone. It
>sure would be great if we could actually *hear* these different tunings
>rather
>than just spouting numbers at each other. So, one of us could have a
>two-second audio clip of, say, an authentic cadence in quarter-comma
>meantone,
>and another two-second clip of that same cadence in third-comma
>meantone. > >

MIDI works quite well for that sort of thing as long as the patch is pipe
organ, which is vibratoless on all the soundcards I've heard but one.
Also, if one were to set up a newsgroup alt.binaries.music.microtonal
there is nothing to keep anyone away. I think it would be a great thing.
You could post pictures, MIDI, audio of any format you desire. I am
impressed with Real Audio's latest release. Real Audio encoder
and player are still free, you just have to search the Real Audio website
with a magnifying glass. Also, free websites are available from many
companies, and most come with at least 2M free disk space, I believe.
It should be simple for almost anyone to offer samples of their audio to
those for whom web access is not a problem.

John Starrett
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret