Re : [tuning] alternate guitar tunings

Joe Monzo:

> Wim Hoogewerf [TD 615.2]:
>
>>BTW: open tunings are not completely irrelevant for the Tuning List.
>>There are many examples of open tunings allowing a microtonal
>>composition for 12tet fretted guitar.
>
>
> Robin Perry's microtonal guitar work on this principle, even tho
> they *are* refretted and not in 12-tET. In addition to the non-standard
> fretting patterns, which are tempered so that the frets run straight
> across the neck but which are quite close to many JI ratios, the open
> strings are also tuned to quasi-JI pitches.

Hope you're settling well in San Diego, Joe! Could you describe Perry's
piece in a more detailed way? Is there a score available somewhere? Thanks.

--Wim