Kung? re: tuning, culture and weights and measures

Niel and Rick's posting about spirituality prompt me to wonder about stories that I have read/heard about how the ancient Chinese dynasties used a pitch as the basis of their weights and measuring system

rather like we use the French metre as the basis of the metric system.

Apparently when the dynasty changed the value of the "Kung?" changed and how it was enforced reflected upon the power and influence of the new regime.

As this is directly related to tuning, I wonder if anyone else has come across this concept or can tell us more about it.

Thanks

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I find it easy to microtune my software synths....but with my Yamaha Cs6X and Access Virus I have no clue how to do anything beside micro-tune the existing 12 notes +/- a few cents.  What software or toolkit s can I use to retune my hardware MIDI synths to any arbitrary tuning?

I've heard good things about the H-PI "tuning box," but I haven't
checked it out for myself. Scala is also supposed to be useful for
"retuning" incoming MIDI, although it seems to be pretty complicated
from my first look at it.

-Mike

On 6/6/08, Michael Sheiman <djtrancendance@...> wrote:
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> I find it easy to microtune my software synths....but with my Yamaha Cs6X
> and Access Virus I have no clue how to do anything beside micro-tune the
> existing 12 notes +/- a few cents. What software or toolkit s can I use to
> retune my hardware MIDI synths to any arbitrary tuning?