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🔗Christopher Bailey <cb202@columbia.edu>

5/8/2003 1:06:44 PM

>>i'm sure they're not just, rather they're "measured" regional
>>tunings, and the partials of the "instruments" are adjusted to match
>>the tunings.
>
> I had some suspicions a while back while listening to that CD so I
>got
>a
>notoriously paranoid-but-musically-talented friend - who naturally got
>all
>hyper and intrigued - to spectrum analyze the CD output.
> From what we could determine using the spectrum analyzer is that Ms.
>Carlos is using some kind of extremely ultra-high n-ET to approximate
>Just
>Intonation and Pelog and Slendro. Either that or my friend's spectrum
>analyzer sux or Ms. Carlos' equipment has certain technological limitions
>[that are not _exactly_ stated in the notes, the expanded media on the CD
>or
>her website].
> Or all our equipment sux.
>

Doesn't she mention using a 144-tone scale somewhere in the notes?

I was wondering if this was 144-tet, as a sort of even-better-than-72
approximation of Just.

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🔗wallyesterpaulrus <wallyesterpaulrus@yahoo.com>

5/8/2003 6:25:04 PM

.--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Christopher Bailey <cb202@c...> wrote:

> Doesn't she mention using a 144-tone scale somewhere in the notes?

she uses that "super-just" scale in one or two pieces.

> I was wondering if this was 144-tet, as a sort of even-better-than-
72
> approximation of Just.

unfortunately, 144-equal won't do that. but her super-just scale is
rather a 12-tone harmonic series scale transposed to all the tonics
in 12-tone equal temperament -- hence 144 tones in all.