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Solving (and not just complaining about) tuning group conflicts

🔗djtrancendance <djtrancendance@...>

2/14/2009 9:31:56 AM

I think were have a huge issue here: we seem to have people interested
in one of a few things

1) Making "new" scales (non-JI, non-standard-meantone) and improving
them (constructive criticism)
2) Making scales (JI or Mean-tone) and improving them (constructive
criticism)
3) Tuning history AND conflicts with/between historical theories
4) Recommended micro-tonal music for listening

I think turning this message group in a PHP forum with those 4
topics available (and e-mail as an OPTION) would help things from
going off topic (as they very often do) immensely.
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I, for one, am SICK of having things happen like
A) I post a new tuning I've made (topic #1 above) with a simple sound
example
.....and yet people respond primary about
3) tuning history and conflicts with my "non historic" scale
4) posting their own songs made from my tuning (publicly displaying my
tuning without consulting me if they have the right scale)...note I
like it when people try my tunings but frustrate it when they make
scales from them while ignoring my scale rules completely and then
call it an "example of my theory" and
2) comparing them it to JI even when I stated specifically my tuning
and the scale under it is NOT intended to be JI at all.

And the whole thing degenerates into several fairly off-topic
messages (about ten times more messages than needed) that do little to
actually help me improve my scales.
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Does anyone else think turning this newsgroup into an organized
web forum with topic rules would help?

-Michael