video clips of UnTwelve event (July 31st)

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Petr- check that kalimba tuning!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRnAHx-7Ef4

(Aaron- know what it is?)

-Carl

Carl wrote:
> Petr- check that kalimba tuning!
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRnAHx-7Ef4
I don't have any piece of equipment handy that could help me so I have to
rely completely on my ears now. What I'm able to hear is approximately
something like this:
G2, G3, D4, this seems to be one of the main origins of "consonance". Then
there's a very high Ab3 (about 140 cents higher than the G), from that
there's something like a "very high" C4-Eb4-Gb4-Ab4-A4, and then something
which sounds like chaos to me ... Bb4, B4, Db5, D5, E5, F5, F#5. Or
something along those lines. But, and this is the core of it, imagine this
in 2/5-comma meantone or something similar and you'll understand why I used
the chromatic names for the notes instead of minor seconds.

Petr

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Petr Parízek <p.parizek@...> wrote:
>
> Carl wrote:
> > Petr- check that kalimba tuning!
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRnAHx-7Ef4
>
> I don't have any piece of equipment handy that could help
> me so I have to rely completely on my ears now.

Well, yes, I was using the slang 'check it'.
Kinda like "dig it". -Carl

Aaron Johnson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We can thank Anthony Moser, an acquaintance of Andrew Heathwaite's, > for very generously showing up and recording the UnTwelve benefit > event for free!
>
> http://www.youtube.com/user/AnthonyMoser
>
> There is some info not corrected yet, mainly that the harpsichord work > is by Thomas Morley ('Go from my window' from the Fitwilliam Viriginal > book) and Aaron Andrew Hunt's piece hasn't been correctly identified, > but I've sent him corrections, and there are three performances up, > including two by yours truly, and a hypnotic thumb piano performance > by Jacob Barton called 'Polyanna'.
>
> Coming up--two choral works (17-tet and JI) and a JI piano improv from > me, Andrew Heathwaite's Cumbus set, some udderbotting and didacting by > Jacob B., and the grand finale, the 'Multiverse Round' by Jacob B., > done live will all sort of interest and color by the 'UnTwelve ensemble'.

Thanks, Aaron! I recognized "Short Unidentified Piece". And I'm definitely looking to the JI piano and c�mb�s,. ~D.

Carl wrote:

> Well, yes, I was using the slang 'check it'.
> Kinda like "dig it". -Carl

I think I understood what you meant, I just tried it in case anyone were
interested. And then, when I heard the piece for the first time, I thought
about the idea of retuning my kalimba to that. But it's too many tones. :-D
And anyway, it still sounds to me a bit like if someone had tuned the
instrument in one particular way and someone else began playing around with
the tongues "hither and thither" (but not all of them), making their pitches
change a lot ... I don't know ... The higher tones keep sounding chaotic to
my ear.

Petr