source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 09:04:35 -0800 Subject: RE: Jon Catler's guitar, Microstock 2 From: PAULE I just received the Catler Bros. new CD in the mail. There don't seem to be nearly enough frets on J.C.'s guitar to make 49/oct -- is it that if all the notes were transposed to one octave, there'd be 49? Sorry the event wasn't more popular -- I hope to be contributing my own 22-tone jazz/rock in some future Microstock. While Neil's tunings are the best ETs for 5-limit harmony, and Catler favors purely tuned 13-limit sounds, my own preference falls somewhere in between, with 7-limit harmony predominating and excursions up to the 11-limit. Although I won't deny their musical usefulness, 13-limit sounds have yet to impress me as "consonant" in the slightest. Right now I'm still fumbling with a keyboard, barely able to reach a "perfect fifth" with one hand, can't wait for the guitar to arrive . . . Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 18:17 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA06658; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 11:49:54 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA07341 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id CAA16107; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 02:49:52 -0800 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 02:49:52 -0800 Message-Id: <199610280549_MC1-B64-1070@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu