source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 12:18:05 -0800 Subject: Re: News 7ET Citings From: Johnny Reinhard I just came across an incredible book - Bagpipes and Tunings - by Theodor H. Podnos (Detroit 1974). Since tuning Larry Cole's Spanish bagpipe, I have become introduced to some new perspectives on the role of the bagpipe in the world. Podnos states that the immense variety of bagpipe tunings indicate ancient pitch arrangements worldwide that are no longer in practice among other instruments. This is due in part because the exactitude of pipe tunings (since their is no embochure to alter an objective pitch description) rarely in in interplay with other instruments. Regarding new evidence of 7ET (in addtion to the Thai, 'Are'are, Puna, and central African peoples - especially in Cameroun), there is the following by Podnos: "During the fifteenth century, Italian bagpipes were probably tuned in accordance with equi-distant heptatonc scale formations. These intervallic measurements have also been used up to the present by bagpipe players of Miranda do Douro in northeastern Portugal. Such exotic tunings have been regarded by musicologists as remnants of ancient or medieval music." I have included 7ET in my music several times, often in combination with 5ET, in Cosmic Rays, Alternity for double bass, and Millennium (in the finale for tenor sax, violin, and bassoon). Johnny Reinhard American Festival of Microtonal Music 318 East 70th Street, Suite 5FW New York, New York 10021 USA (212)517-3550/fax (212) 517-5495 reinhard@ios.com Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 21:29 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03410; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 21:30:12 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03424 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA01274; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 12:30:10 -0800 Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 12:30:10 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu