Woolhouse, 19- & 12-tET

I wrote:

> In fact, 12-EDO may not yet have been the status-quo in
> England. From what I've read, England seems to have been
> the last country in Europe to generally adopt 12-EDO,
> and so perhaps he was really making a legitimate push for
> it here. But he certainly would have appreciated a more
> inventive approach to building instruments, because he
> clearly preferred 19-EDO.

Reading that last sentence again made me think back to
a little more than a year ago, when I was at the Sonic
Arts Gallery, and had daily access to Ivor Darreg's
19-EDO guitar. Besides the fun I was having exploring
all the great and weird new instruments in all kinds
of different tunings, I got very interested in that
19-tone guitar and began writing little pieces on it.

Hearing Neil Haversticks _The Gate_ and especially
_African Stick_ CDs and reading his little book on
19-tET earlier last year first got me interested in
that tuning. Now it's nice to know that a mathematician
of Woolhouse's level choose 19-EDO as the most practical
alternative to 12-EDO. It's a tuning I certainly would
like to explore much further.

Any knowledgeable comments on England's late adoption
of 12-equal? (Margo, perhaps...?) Or how about a
nice plausible chronology of global 12-tET monopolozation?
That would make for a good webpage.

-monz

Joseph L. Monzo Philadelphia monz@juno.com
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/homepage.html
|"...I had broken thru the lattice barrier..."|
| - Erv Wilson |
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