source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:36:14 -0800 Subject: Antonio Soler as Microtonalist From: Ray Izumi <74353.1735@CompuServe.COM> Johnny Reinhard writes: > This is an open invitation for all those lurkers out there to step > forward and introduce yourself. I hope - and expect - that there will be > tolerance and understanding by the regulars. Well, you asked for it. I've been spending some time putting up a home page for Antonio Soler, at: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/izumirm/solerpag.htm which includes some MIDI files (in equal temperament, tho I'm thinking about using the pitch-bend method to convert them to Valotti or Werckmeister. But that's another project...). During the course of my research for this, I discovered that Soler invented a device he called an "affinador", for dividing the scale into 20 tones. But there seems to be very little information on this, or on Soler's contribution to microtonalism. Does anybody have more information on this topic, or on early (1600-1700's) microtonal pioneers? TIA. Ray Izumi, 74353.1735@compuserve.com Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 21:50 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA10653; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 21:51:58 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA11227 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA07062; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 12:51:56 -0800 Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 12:51:56 -0800 Message-Id: <199611282047.MAA05499@zorro.bctel.ca> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu