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If the Easley Blackwood book is so indispensible...

🔗Jon Szanto <jszanto@cox.net>

1/13/2006 7:05:12 PM

...why isn't it in print? Why, with all the resources that university
printing/publication departments have, has he not reprinted it
himself? This is the most often mention AND least available book for
years on the tuning lists - why no groundswell?

Just curious. The book I *really* want to get is ... hmmm, I have to
get the title exact. Later.

Cheers,
Jon

🔗wallyesterpaulrus <wallyesterpaulrus@yahoo.com>

1/30/2006 5:53:10 PM

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Jon Szanto" <jszanto@c...> wrote:
>
>
> ...why isn't it in print? Why, with all the resources that university
> printing/publication departments have, has he not reprinted it
> himself?

He's been retired for quite a few years now.

> This is the most often mention AND least available book for
> years on the tuning lists - why no groundswell?

The tuning lists don't get many books put in print. If more than 2
courses on tuning existed in the entire U.S. academe, though, we'd have
a much better shot -- the publisher could be assured of more than
several dozen automatic sales a semester.

> Just curious. The book I *really* want to get is ... hmmm, I have to
> get the title exact. Later.

Did you get the title exact yet?

🔗Jon Szanto <jszanto@cox.net>

1/30/2006 7:21:07 PM

Yo Paul,

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "wallyesterpaulrus"
<wallyesterpaulrus@y...> wrote:
> He's been retired for quite a few years now.

Right. A shame, I suppose.

[Jon:]
> > This is the most often mention AND least available book for
> > years on the tuning lists - why no groundswell?
>
> The tuning lists don't get many books put in print.

I was speaking rhetorically, as I am acutely/fondly aware of how small
the ripples are that we make.

> If more than 2
> courses on tuning existed in the entire U.S. academe, though, we'd have
> a much better shot -- the publisher could be assured of more than
> several dozen automatic sales a semester.

Aha - see Kyle's excellent blog on just this subject:
http://tinyurl.com/868qb

> Did you get the title exact yet?

As mentioned briefly in the above blog, the book is Jonathan Kramer's
1988 book "The Time of Music".

Cheers,
Jon