My recent silence

Dear list,

Thank you for all your rapid and lengthy and interesting responses to my
posts. Unfortunately, I am not able to keep up the correspondance at the
rate I had been. Furthermore, given my lack of software for creating
sequences according to specific tunings, I have no convincing way to
resolve our differences, or, putting it more scientifically, to test my
hypotheses or perform experiments. I intend to carefully study your
responses, and at some time in the future put my ideas forward in a more
comprehensive way. Given some of the experiments I've performed tonight
with various tunings of chords on my guitar, I'm beginning to suspect that
correct (or natural, or best) intonation is much more flexible than I had
previously thought, in that it seems to be even more dependent on harmonic
context, including voicing, than I had considered.

On October 13th, I wrote:

>I am looking for a notation program that uses standard notation but
>would let me specify the pitch of each note. I would like to specify
>pitches in cycles per second, and not just globally but also dynamically
>(so that sometimes within a score F might be one pitch and at other
>times some other pitch). I would also like to be able to specify pitches
>by >means of a formula. For example, once the pitch of the root of a chord
>was >specified, I woud like to be able to specify the pitches of the other
>notes >relative to that of the root.

I had only a response or two to that post, back in the days before I set a
fire by conjecturing that the altered scale is tuned with the prime numbers
through 19. I still need some sort of software to do experiments and test
my theories against others that are proposed. I don't own a synthesizer and
the computer I have is (please don't laugh!) an ancient Mac IIci with 100
MB of RAM and a 100-MB hard drive. Any suggestions? I know that many of you
have created sequences that you have tuned and I'm eager to do the same.
Any suggestions?

John Link
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