Re: Microtonal notation

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "J.Smith" <jsmith9624@...> wrote:

> Unless I'm suffering from some sort of mania (or too much coffee), it's
> very unlikely I would be using each and every pitch in say, 89-tone
EDO...

Why not? Say you are noodling away on your 31 out of 89 keyboard. If
it has a good design, it should allow you to fix whatever chord you
are holding down and slide your MOS in one direction or another when
that is possible. Now the "wolf" has moved somewhere else.

>If I were feeling excessively manic and
> needed to use all the pitches in 173-EDO or whatever, this method would
> still work... though, I honestly believe I'd be better off using
> Carillo's system at that point.

Hey, I've used every pitch in 171-edo. As Hedley Lamarr noted, "it
*can* be done!"