source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 12:34:47 -0800 Subject: Re: TUNING digest 964 From: John_Gzowski@goodmedia.com (John Gzowski) Comments to Manuel Op de Coul coul@ezh.n about Arabic Tuning I've been playing with a group here in Toronto that performs Arabic and Greek music. Two of the group went to Syria to study for 3 months last year. They also came back with a qanuun that has quarter tone levers, which I understand to is common to even student models. I hear you can also get 9 comma models, though I don't how that is based, ie what comma or how many steps to an octave. However the quarter tone model is usually based on 12 tet tuning (open strings) but is functionally 24 tet. Another friend has been in Turkey for the last 2 years studying they're classical music, she's comming back in a couple of weeks so I'll quiz her more about current tunings. John Gzowski Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 21:37 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA13289; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 21:37:16 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA13298 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA04846; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 12:37:12 -0800 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 12:37:12 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu