source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:23:31 -0800 Subject: RE: Microtonal Jazz From: PAULE Don Ellis wrote a book on his experiences as a quarter-tone jazz trumpeter. He derived his scale in a very silly way: those of Partch's 43 which were within 5 cents of an integer number of equal-tempered quartertones away from the 1/1 made it into his scale. I've heard that he was a great trumpeter, though. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 01:01 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA00401; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 01:01:49 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA00384 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA26860; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 16:01:44 -0800 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 16:01:44 -0800 Message-Id: <61961031235716/0005695065PK5EM@MCIMAIL.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu