greetings

hello everyone!
My name is chester winowiecki and I'm a potter and ceramic musical
instrument maker from west michigan. i'm a member of the just
intonation network but I admit that a lot of the 1/1 articles go
right
over my head. I've read the JI primer by doty and after 3 times
through it i think that I've finally got it all down. I have no
musical training, which I think is a good thing in some ways, but it
seems that a lot of the information out there is greared to those who
have been trained in 12 equal music and then moved on to JI or
microtonal scales. You wouldn't believe how many times I get tripped
up by terms, conventions or abbreviations.
Currently, I'm
finishing up my second JI instrument a ceramic xylophone in the
harmonic duodene, the first was a wooden marimba in a simple 5 limit
scale. I've translated the ratios to cents and am using a guitar
tuner
to tune the bars. I know that I can only get so close, but this is
the
best method I have right now. Someday I hope to make a monochord so
that I can train my ear to hear these intervals.
next: another ceramic xylo in archytas' enharmonic!
Peace,
Chester

Chester,
Don't worry. You are not alone on this list. Personally I am light years away from formal music theory, and I am constantly going through similar struggles and frustrations that you have so candidly described.
On the other hand, I sometimes feel like a bumble bee who does not know that it should not fly, per aerodynamic laws. However, because the bumble bee is not aware of aerodynamics, it flies.
There is no reason why you should not feel "right at home" with these wonderful people on this List who are willing to go out of their way to help educate pedestrians like myself. So, enjoy it.
Your struggling pedestrian comrade Can Akkoc.
coitmusic <cwinowiecki@hotmail.com> wrote:hello everyone!
My name is chester winowiecki and I'm a potter and ceramic musical
instrument maker from west michigan. i'm a member of the just
intonation network but I admit that a lot of the 1/1 articles go
right
over my head. I've read the JI primer by doty and after 3 times
through it i think that I've finally got it all down. I have no
musical training, which I think is a good thing in some ways, but it
seems that a lot of the information out there is greared to those who
have been trained in 12 equal music and then moved on to JI or
microtonal scales. You wouldn't believe how many times I get tripped
up by terms, conventions or abbreviations.
Currently, I'm
finishing up my second JI instrument a ceramic xylophone in the
harmonic duodene, the first was a wooden marimba in a simple 5 limit
scale. I've translated the ratios to cents and am using a guitar
tuner
to tune the bars. I know that I can only get so close, but this is
the
best method I have right now. Someday I hope to make a monochord so
that I can train my ear to hear these intervals.
next: another ceramic xylo in archytas' enharmonic!
Peace,
Chester

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hello Chester,

--- In tuning@y..., "coitmusic" <cwinowiecki@h...> wrote:
>
> <snip> ... I have no musical training, which I think is
> a good thing in some ways, but it seems that a lot of the
> information out there is greared to those who have been
> trained in 12 equal music and then moved on to JI or
> microtonal scales. You wouldn't believe how many times
> I get tripped up by terms, conventions or abbreviations.

you would probably find my Dictionary of Tuning Terms
very useful:

http://sonic-arts.org/dict/

-monz
"all roads lead to n^0"