Playing Microtones was Re: [tuning] (unknown)

Christopher, I have never had any difficulty training a musician to play a
quartertone interval. Why others profess this difficulty, I don't
understand. There is nothing supernatural about it. Biases and prejudices
aside, if you can play strict 12-tET, you can learn to play a quartertone
with very little effort. Tristan's comment sounds to me similar to a
musician claiming that he or she has enough trouble playing in 12-tET without
messing around with microtones!

I have been teaching quartertones to all my New York University students for
years now. They learn it easily, and they progress more rapidly this way
than any other.

Three Reasons To Learn Microtones on Woodwinds (& other instruments)
1. More pitch acuity and expertise for all intervals, especially
conventional ones
2. Greater hands/fingering flexibility, with the equivalent of calisthenics
combined with Tai Chi like control and energy and grace, and
3. Richer tone and maturity of tone as a result of integrating the whole of
the instruments timbre and expressivity into a totality that can lean
brighter and darker as desired.

best, Johnny Reinhard