Bohlen-Pierce scale (_¡was!_Re: hi, i'm back & a few ???_ok?_)

Joe Pehrson writes:

>> I found the Bohlen-Pierce scale to be fascinating to work with:
>> maybe a bit dark and strange, but not unduly so.

I like "dark and strange" ::BiG TooTHY "alien" Stitch-like GRiNNie::

I quote from _Yuan Dao: Tracing Dao to Its Source_:

[. . .]
Hazy and nebulous,
It [Dao] cannot be taken as an image;
Nebulous and hazy,
It is not spent through use;
Obscure and dark,
It responds to what is without form;
Deep and dark,
It makes no move in vain.
It is rolled up and unrolled along with the pliant and the
unbending;
It turns upwards and downwards with the _yin_ and _yang_."

>>It seems better suited for electronic studies than anything; getting "real
live"
>> players to perform it would be a task, I believe.

David Beardsley writes:

>One could always fret a guitar for it.

In a message dated 2003:05:25 12:20:51 AM, paul e writes:

>seems like almost a waste to have so few frets -- i'd go with
>
>http://members.aol.com/bpsite/scales.html#anchor417408
>
>myself -- if nothing else you have the BP scale at three different
>pitch levels.

Can always have indiscreet pitch regions - broad pitch regions thru which
the tone can slide... more like the Japanese _biwa_ with it's broad frets
(and its really rough, beautiful "corporeal" timbral-quality) than slide guitar,
sitar, or bowed stringed instruments, etc. I think would be best. Or a large
"tekno-primitiv" string-drum/ _tambour de chordes_ would probably work very
nicely like Ivor Darreg's Drone, except entirely acoustic.

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