Yahoo Tuning Groups Ultimate Backup tuning TONTO

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> 1. Re: Re: convert cents to vps (was: Digest Number 3634)
> From: "Ozan Yarman" <ozanyarman@superonline.com>
> 2. Re: Re: Further doubts about Lehman's 'Bach' scale
> From: "Ozan Yarman" <ozanyarman@superonline.com>
> 3. Re: Re: Proportional stretch function
> From: "Ozan Yarman" <ozanyarman@superonline.com>
> 4. Re: Re: Further doubts about Lehman's 'Bach' scale
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> 5. Lehman-Bach temperament on BBC radio (was: Re: Further doubts ..)
> From: "Brad Lehman" <bpl@umich.edu>
> 6. Re: Temperament (Extra)ordinare! (Was: Further doubts ...)
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> 7. Re: Temperament (Extra)ordinare! (Was: Further doubts ...)
> From: "wallyesterpaulrus" <wallyesterpaulrus@yahoo.com>
> 8. Re: Temperament (Extra)ordinare! (Was: Further doubts ...)
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I saw this animal at mark motherbaugh studio about 8 years ago at his studio on the sunset strip.
it took up the whole bottom floor.
he was using it.

>Message: 22 > Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:51:19 -0600
> From: "Neil Haverstick" <microstick@msn.com>
>Subject: >TONTtontoO
>TONTO Heyhey...I'm reading "Analog Days," a great book about Bob Moog and >others who invented synthesizers...and, there's a chapter on Malcolm Cecil >and Bob Margouleff, who had a project called Tonto's Expanding Headband, >which I had heard of back then. But, what's interesting is that Cecil says >about the tune "Riversong:" "I was of the belief that this was the >beginning of the music I'd been talking about all along, which had nothing >to do with Western scales. In fact, 'River Song' is in seventeen tone...it >was the first instrument I was able to tune to seventeen tone." So he was >doing this in the early 1970's...does anybody here know of the album they >did, "Zero Time?" Is Cecil still around, doing microtonal music somewhere? >And, is the album on CD, and is it worth a listen? I'm curious...best...HHH
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>Message: 23 > Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:53:49 -0000
> From: "Jon Szanto" <jszanto@cox.net>
>Subject: Re: TONTO
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>Neil,
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>Aw, you're giving away your hippie roots!
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>--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Neil Haverstick" <microstick@m...> wrote:
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>>...and, there's a chapter on Malcolm Cecil and Bob Margouleff, >>who had a project called Tonto's Expanding Headband
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>http://www.kneeling.co.uk/pages/tonto/
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>Cheers,
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>Message: 24 > Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:01:03 -0400
> From: Seth Austen <seth@sethausten.com>
>Subject: Re: TONTO
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>On Aug 30, 2005, at 6:51 PM, Neil Haverstick wrote:
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>>to do with Western scales. In fact, 'River Song' is in seventeen >>tone...it
>>was the first instrument I was able to tune to seventeen tone." So he >>was
>>doing this in the early 1970's...does anybody here know of the album >>they
>>did, "Zero Time?" Is Cecil still around, doing microtonal music >>somewhere?
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>Malcolm Cecil is still around, and was recently interviewed in an issue >of TapeOp,
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>Seth
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>Message: 25 > Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:20:08 -0500
> From: Aaron Krister Johnson <aaron@akjmusic.com>
>Subject: Killing the Buddha of well-temperament
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>Hello one and all,
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>In the ensuing dialog about various well-temperaments, Lehman's vs. >Werckmeister vs. Neidhardt vs. Secor's vs. Wendell vs. 1/7 comma or 1/6-comma >modified meantones vs. Vallotti or Young or Vallotti/Young, I did an >experiment: I loaded these tunings into my synth one after the other and >played various chords and bits of music and decided that arguing the virtues >of one over the other is really just an enormous waste of time. I really >*could* hear differences, but they are more noticable to the tuner, and so >subtle I think that they would mostly go unnoticed in a perfomance, except >that the ones with more Pythagorean thirds would sound a bit more jangle-y >and aggressive. >
>I say this knowing full well that I have really, really fine ears, and many of >you do to.
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>I'm willing to put this to test with anyone who would challenge me....!!!
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>Best,
>Aaron.
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>P.S. I'm well aware that I'm implicating myself here, i.e. to say, I 'waste my >time' arguing the virtues of my pet tunings over others (eg. my >pro-NeidhardtI position vs. Johnny Reinhard's pro-WerckIII position.)
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TONTO

🔗Neil Haverstick <microstick@msn.com>

🔗Jon Szanto <jszanto@cox.net>

🔗Seth Austen <seth@sethausten.com>

🔗Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@anaphoria.com>

🔗Manuel Op de Coul <coul@hccnet.nl>

🔗David Beardsley <db@biink.com>