source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 17:00:19 -0700 Subject: Stretching 88CET From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@compuserve.com> The advantages of tempering 88CET up far enough to keep it from being every third step of 41TET (if there really are any) are more conceptual than anything else. There are two values in using 88CET itself for what 88CET offers, instead of setting up your instruments for 41TET and then just using every third step. 1. You have fewer notes to deal with (e.g. more playable keyboards, fret-separations, and such). 2. You establish a conceptual framework for your music that establishes 9:7s, 11:9s, 7:6s, 7:4s, 10:9s, and such as the basic building blocks, instead of 2:1s, 5:4s, 6:5s, 4:3s, and such. Forcing yourself to rethink the problem entirely from that perspective, rather than using variants on a traditional set of premises, will almost certainly cause you to produce entirely different music. Making it miss the triple octave as well as the double octave may somewhat enhance that different perspective. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 05:04 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA07848; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 04:04:02 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA07614 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA15095; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 20:03:59 -0700 Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 20:03:59 -0700 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19961001030240.0069a600@adnc.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu