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Catler's axe

🔗Paul H. Erlich <PErlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx>

1/26/1999 4:11:21 PM

Drew Skyfyre wrote,

>1) The blurb on Jon Catler on the FreeNote Records' BIo page says :
>"...unprecedented range of consonance and dissonance, alternating
>between a 49-note per octave and a fretless neck."

>Can someone shed some light on Jon Catler's 49-tone axe ?
>I wouldn't assume it to be 49-tet since Catler seems more of
>a JI guy from what I've read.

It's a 13-limit JI system which has 49 notes when reduced to one octave.
Catler may not have all 49 notes within one octave; he certainly doesn't
have them all on a single string. Someone on the list knows more about
this . . . was it David Beardsley?