Fwd: un-tempered clavier

Greetings,
I received this recently from a music theory list I'm on. It is taking
the "adaptive tuning" to an acoustical level.
Regards,
Ed Foote

>The North American premiere of the Groven Piano will take place at the
>Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival:
>
>1:30 pm, Thursday, May 2, 2002 - Little Theatre
>Western Michigan University - Kalamazoo, Michigan
>
>The Groven Piano is a revolutionary performing instrument merging
>acoustic pianos with digital technology to free the piano from the
>constraints of the keyboard. Developed in Norway by WMU music professor
>David Loberg Code, the Groven Piano is comprised of four specially-tuned
>Yamaha Disklavier pianos networked together on-stage. A computer
>program synchronizes them in real-time to provide acoustically pure
>harmonies and exotic scales. The result is similar to the more subtle
>nuances of pitch experienced by a string quartet or an a cappella vocal
>ensemble. The Gilmore premiere is free and open to the public. It will
>include a lecture by Dr. Code and performances by WMU faculty and guest
>artists featuring a wide variety of classical, folk, and jazz
>repertoire.
>
>More information (including pictures and soundfiles) is available at the
>Groven Piano website:
>http://www.wmich.edu/mus-theo/groven
>

--- In tuning@y..., a440a@a... wrote:
> Greetings,
> I received this recently from a music theory list I'm on. It
is taking
> the "adaptive tuning" to an acoustical level.
> Regards,
> Ed Foote

actually, mr. code has discussed this with us before. the groven
system is in fact a schismic temperament, extended to a chain of
about 35 schismic fifths. although the implementation is
certainly 'adaptive', in that the resulting pitch of a piano note
depends on context, this is not really 'adaptive tuning' as john
delaubenfels and others here have discussed it. for example, in
schismic tuning you're stuck with essentially full-comma shifts or
drifts in nearly any work of common-practice music -- so it's a lot
more like strict just intonation.

--- In tuning@y..., "emotionaljourney22" <paul@s...> wrote:
> --- In tuning@y..., a440a@a... wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > I received this recently from a music theory list I'm on. It
> is taking
> > the "adaptive tuning" to an acoustical level.
> > Regards,
> > Ed Foote
>
> actually, mr. code has discussed this with us before. the groven
> system is in fact a schismic temperament, extended to a chain of
> about 35 schismic fifths. although the implementation is
> certainly 'adaptive', in that the resulting pitch of a piano note
> depends on context, this is not really 'adaptive tuning' as john
> delaubenfels and others here have discussed it. for example, in
> schismic tuning you're stuck with essentially full-comma shifts or
> drifts in nearly any work of common-practice music -- so it's a lot
> more like strict just intonation.

Bob Wendell comments:
Nevertheless, I am happy to see a step in this direction. The
experience of hearing justly tuned acoustic piano even with glitches
is worth something, I would venture. It at least offers a taste of
freedom for those ears who have never before had any feel for what it
might be like to live outside the 12-tET prison.