source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 00:43:21 -0800 Subject: Harrison/Lucy comments From: clucy@cix.compulink.co.uk (Charles Lucy) http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/lullaby New LucyTuning site; Particularly aimed at LucyTuned Lullaby sales for holiday gifts. includes samples - still in beta mode. Comments and orders welcomed. We are now back in Hawaii (Big Island - Puna) lucy&jk This missive is to respond to recent Harrison/Lucy comments 1. Thanks Manuel. Yes Hawaii is Paradise after London. If I remember correctly, it was Jorgensen, who got the pi calcuations completely wrong, so beware and check his arithmetic. The article in Pitch was mine, about ten years ago. You'll also find a crit. from Doty in 1/1 a few years ago. As far as I remember, Doty got his arithmetic correct, yet insisted on comparing everything to integer frequency ratios, which of course entirely missed the significance of the beating. 2. For information on "pop" (commercial use of LucyTuning) in the real economic music business see Arc Angel's website. The Arc Angel home page is at http://www.gold.net/users/du27/index.html 3. Thoughts about patents and copyrights. Yes, I have patented, copyrighted and trademarked much of my work associated with LucyTuning. The reasons are strictly economic. To attract investment and commercial credibility, in the present economic system the game requires that intellectual property be protected. When I am paid royalties, awards, fees, profits etc. I use them for further work and my family's survival. We must all be aware of the moral shortcomings of the present distribution of wealth in present times, yet to build for the future we live in the present and in consequence I have to play by the economic rules of the present. Amiga made great computers in their day, yet now they are "dead", due to financial and economic conditions. I wish to avoid the same mistakes and develop a sound financial base for the encouragement of microtunings, of which there are many varieties. LucyTuning is to my mind the most practical, flexible, and logical development from 12tet as it can also be used to "re-interpret" existing compositions as well as providing a viable model for the future. I respect the work of others at the "edge", and value their ideas. My direction remains the same - to replace 12et with a "better" system. I therefore appeal to all interested in tuning to encourage instrument manufacturers to improve tuning resolution to benefit all of us. The MIDI tuning dump seems like a good first step in that direction. lucy & jk from sunny Puna on the Big Island Charles Lucy 17th Dec 1996 Pahoa, Hawaii 96778-2108 Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 10:04 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01155; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 10:07:05 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01153 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id BAA04410; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 01:07:03 -0800 Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 01:07:03 -0800 Message-Id: <199612180358_MC1-D68-E125@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu