Re: Javanese tunings

>Further, there are auxillary pitches ("miring" or "minir") used in slendro
>which are variously represented as either like western chromatic
>alterations or borrowings from a parallel pelog scale.

So far so good.

>At this point in time, it is safe to disregard Mantle Hood's writings
>altogether. For a general introduction to pitch vocabularies, nothing is
>better than Martopangrawit's articles in volume 1 of _Karawitan_. The best
>contemporary account of Javanese tuning practice, and a critique of American
>just intonation gamelan, is by Marc Perlman.

Thanks!

>Rothenberg was similarly confused in his use of data from his main informant
>Bernhard Ijzendraat Suryabrata.

Would you be willing to elucidate?

-C.