source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:01:47 -0800 Subject: Re: TUNING digest 941 From: John Starrett All- In response to Gary Morrison's post on the distinction between just and pure, I thought I was reasonably careful in my steel guitar post, using pure in reference to the tuning of beatless chords, and "just" in quotes in reference to the tuning of the whole steel guitar, but upon rereading it I noticed that the just in the title was without quotes and "pure" had 'em. Switch the quotation marks between those two and we're cool. The two "standard" tunings of pedal steel necks are C6 (Nashville) and E9, and neither determines an entire diatonic scale (there are many exceptions, for instance Bobby Lee's diatonic tuning, check http://www.wco.com:80/~quasar/tunings.htm for instance). Should the string pitches of a tuning reduced to an octave be, for instance, 1/1, 9/8, 5/4, 4/3, 3/2, 5/3, 15/8, 2/1 I think it is reasonable to use the term just without quotes. "Just" seems reasonable to me as a term describing a conglomerate of purely tuned intervals linked by common tones, but still short of a diatonic scale. Perhaps I am missing a more subtle point Gary is trying to make. John Starrett Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 20:15 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA05314; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 20:18:11 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA04525 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA24780; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:18:08 -0800 Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:18:08 -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