cents notation/Sims notation comparison

I've added a couple of graphic .gif files to our files area (don't
worry, I *deleted* some things, too! :)

One file shows the *cents* notation that Johnny Reinhard prefers, and
the other the *Sims* notation for comparison:

/tuning/files/Pehrson/

Basically, the piece with the cents notation, _Violahexy_ uses a
scale based on stellated hexanies:

it uses basic *quartertone* notation with cents "inflections" from
these basic quartertones. The system of quartertones in use is a
modified form of the traditional Tartini microtonal accidentals, as
found in the SCORE notation program which was used for this piece.
(I no longer use SCORE...)

I have to admit that the violist who played this piece first
concentrated on trying to get the *quartertones* and only later
managed to get the "nuanced" cents microtones, sometimes more
successfully than at other times...

The other example is a .gif of the *Sims* microtones (there is also
another graphic file in my folder showing Sims accidentals). The
symbols for that are, of course, only quartertone up, down, sixth-
tone up, down and twelfth tone up, down. The piece in question is
the cello piece we have been discussing, called _Blacklight_.

The Sims accidentals *should* make the piece easier to play than the
cents method, with numbers all over the page. However, Johnny
Reinhard, and possibly others, feels the "hieroglyphic" nature of the
Sims causes "confusion" and player reluctance...

I have to admit that the reactions to the Sims, commonly used for 72-
tET, have not been all *that* enthusiastic among performers who are
new to this.

*You* be the judge... :)

Joseph Pehrson