Subject: Re: Meantone keyboards

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Hello Gene!
This was his exact intent all along. his other patent pretty much covers other grid designs. it has prevented
more than one large company from trying to monopolise such designs. We see how a simple thing like "bent frets"
neither bring the designer any real money ( in fact cost them a ton) and prevents any real progress in the musical
arts.
There are quite a few 31 tione instruments in this design at his house. For mallet instruments , i prefer the
Bosonquet family. Even moving from tuning to tuning , one understands the underlying logic right away and even the
shift sometimes with gliss played up instead of down is no problem to get used to.

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> From: "Gene Ward Smith" <gwsmith@svpal.org>
> Subject: Re: Meantone keyboards
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> I checked and Erv did patent the keyboard concept, which I find
> deplorable unless he had a good reason for doing so. However, the
> patent seems to be expired by now, which could actually be helpful.

-- -Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island
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--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, kraig grady <kraiggrady@a...> wrote:

> Hello Gene!
> This was his exact intent all along. his other patent pretty
much covers other grid designs.

I'm very glad to hear that, Kraig. Tell Erv to keep up the good work.

>> Hello Gene!
>> This was his exact intent all along. his other patent pretty
>much covers other grid designs.
>
>I'm very glad to hear that, Kraig. Tell Erv to keep up the good
>work.

I missed something. Erv thinks the design is bad, and wants to
stop it from being produced, so he patented it?

If Erv thinks the design is good, why would he patent it to
block its production?

-Carl

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I agree with George on this one. Having access to a two manual scalatron at Erv's , it doesn't compare to Bosonquet.

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> From: "gdsecor" <gdsecor@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Meantone keyboards
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> Two keyboards stacked -- sounds like the original Scalatron -- fine
> for experimenting, but please, take my word for it: It was very
> clumsy for performing anything with more than 12 tones/octave and
> required a virtuoso technique to play anything on two keyboards at
> once in a fast tempo. The greatly improved fingering facility
> allowed by the generalized keyboard made it "no contest."
>
> --George
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-- -Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island
http://www.anaphoria.com
The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU 88.9 FM WED 8-9PM PST