Partch and 43

I always believed that Partch's '43-tone scale' has been widely
misrepresented.

From what I have read, HP's music was made with whatever resources he could
use that had as its basis some component of his 'tonality diamonds', which
I see as being more important to HP's music. Some instruments have only two
notes, like the marimba eroica (correct me if I am wrong).

HP's music is about a set of guiding principles, and though they can be
used separately, HP saw them as being an artistic unit.

The scale is unimportant, in my opinion. Instead composers using JI in HP's
context should perhaps think in terms of a selection of ratios, and devise
resources that 'work through' them; again this is my opinion.

Mark