source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 08:51:20 -0700 Subject: Embat From: gtaylor@heurikon.com (One Cointreau, on ice....) >From: John Chalmers >With respect to tuning (embat); Al's posting to the gamelan list in Bahasa >Indonesia several months back elaborated on some of the possibilities >inherent in the tuning of a gamelan: (also check out Polansky on >"Paratactical Tunings" and Wendy Carlos on "Tuning", both in past Computer >Music Journals for more fruitful musings.) > >1. 'mbat Pleng >2. 'mbat Larasati >3. 'mbat Sundari I'll sure admit that my direct experience here comes from a one-time teacher and gamelan tuner (A.L. Suwardi), but I was under the impression that at least one or two of these embats referred to the distance between the wider and narrower intervals - that is, the distance between 1-2, 2-3, etc. rather than octave stretching or narrowing as such. And I could also be wrong here, but I'd be surprised to discover that there wasn't some considerable variation from instrument to instrument among the set of instruments as well watching A.L. retune out set, something like that sure seemed to me to be going on.... Selamat pagi, Gregory _ I would go to her, lay it all out, unedited. The plot was a simple one, paraphrasable by the most ingenuous of nets. The life we lead is our only maybe. The tale we tell is the must that we make by living it. [Richard Powers, "Galatea 2.2"] Gregory Taylor/Heurikon Corporation/Madison, WI Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 18:49 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA15755; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:49:40 -0700 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:49:40 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu