Yahoo Tuning Groups Ultimate Backup tuning road trip 2000

Hello Tuning folk!

Since all the time-consuming work of packing and moving is over
for the beginning phase of this project, I decided to re-subscribe
to the List while I'm on the road.

I got a chance to see Robin Perry again in Virginia, and he was
gracious enough to lend me a guitar he refretted, for an indefinite
loan to the Sonic Arts Gallery. I'll be making a detailed webpage
explaining its tuning when I'm resettled. It has 3 different
sizes of frets which go straight across the neck: 70 cents,
85 cents, and 115 cents, in this repeating pattern:

|| | | | | | | |
|| 70 | 115 | 85 | 115 | 115 | 85 | 115 |
|| | | | | | | |

Most of you should be able to see right away some
of the just ratios that it approximates well. The tuning of the
open strings is completely 'user-definable', but Robin generally
uses tunings which produce a nice rich JI chord on the open strings.
Robin's approach is to use temperaments which closely approach JI
but are easy to fret on the guitar, and he calls it 'just-about
intonation'.

Robin showed me another refretted guitar that was even more
interesting, in which the 12-EDO '5th' was divided into 6 equal
parts, giving each fret a step-size of (2^(7/12))^(1/6), or
exactly 116&2/3 cents. The frets on this guitar thus do not
give 'octaves', the closest intervals to an 'octave' being
1166&2/3 cents and 1283&1/3 cents.

Friday night I visited Jacky Ligon in North Carolina. Jacky has
not yet subscribed to the Tuning List, but most likely will be
signing on very soon as a result of my encouragement. He's a
big fan of my work (both the theory and the compositions), and
has recorded some excellent stuff himself. He uses either sampled
sounds or patches he programs himself, and always in JI. He's
very much into Indian music, and a lot of his own pieces reflect
that interest.

Right now I'm visiting Ken Fasano in Georgia, and making huge
strides on improving the functionality of my JustMusic software.

I'll be at SEJIC (to see Darren Burgess, Pat Pagano and the rest
of the gang) Monday night and Tuesday, and then again over the
next weekend, then on to Mobile (Can Akkoc), New Orleans (Derle
Long), and Austin (Gary Morrison, John Loffink, Chris Chapman),
which will be another rather long stop-over.

Are there any microtonalists between Austin and Phoenix???
El Paso would make a great place to stop and 'talk shop'.
Also, I'd love to hear from any microtonalists in southern
New Mexico and Arizona - email me privately at this address
joemonz@yahoo.com
if interested in a visit. I'll be spending at least one night
in Phoenix, and also hope to see where Harry Partch lived in
New Orleans, Benson AZ, and Phoenix.

-monz (on road trip 2000)

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road trip 2000

🔗Joe Monzo <joe_monzo@hotmail.com>

🔗David Beardsley <xouoxno@virtulink.com>