Midi contest versions of microtonal music

Due to numerous complaints, I have new versions of Bodacious Breed and
45000 Fingers in mp3 format. Not only are people adverse to new
tunings, they are it seems adverse to unfamiliar compression codecs.
The newer versions use somewhat cleaner soundfonts, and the 45000
Fingers version is for harpsichord, which I had been thinking before I
decided piano. This made Paul unhappy, so now there is a harpsichord
version without the dubious tuning problems; it's no doubt a better
idea for microtempering which is why I first considered it. But you
see, I had these big, impressive sounding piano fonts I wanted to try...

This is the one which was out of tune for this month:

http://66.98.148.43/~xenharmo/ogg/gene/bodacious.mp3

This gets to be out of tune next month:

http://66.98.148.43/~xenharmo/ogg/gene/fingers.mp3

I've been working on an 11-limit piece off and on, but now I think if
people have not yet digested the 7-limit, the 11-limit may just
totally drive them nuts. I suppose I could try to find out what people
think of atonal 5-limit music in 53-equal.

I hope Paul sees this.

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith" <gwsmith@s...> wrote:

> I hope Paul sees this.

Sans the spelling errors: averse, not adverse. Sorry!

>Due to numerous complaints, I have new versions of Bodacious Breed and
>45000 Fingers in mp3 format. Not only are people adverse to new
>tunings, they are it seems adverse to unfamiliar compression codecs.
>The newer versions use somewhat cleaner soundfonts, and the 45000
>Fingers version is for harpsichord, which I had been thinking before I
>decided piano. This made Paul unhappy, so now there is a harpsichord
>version without the dubious tuning problems; it's no doubt a better
>idea for microtempering which is why I first considered it. But you
>see, I had these big, impressive sounding piano fonts I wanted to try...
>
>This is the one which was out of tune for this month:
>
>http://66.98.148.43/~xenharmo/ogg/gene/bodacious.mp3
>
>This gets to be out of tune next month:
>
>http://66.98.148.43/~xenharmo/ogg/gene/fingers.mp3

I'm sorry to say I think these aren't as good as the originals.
The trumpet in bodacious is positively ear-gnashing. I don't
follow the dubious thing re. microtempered piano, but piano
seems more suitable for this piece, to me. Or at least, the
particular harpsichord here is too delicate.

-Carl