source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 12:25:33 -0800 Subject: RE: TUNING digest 970 From: PAULE >The _vina_ has its large frets set in a beeswax mixture. This does not, >however, make the frets very mobile (they are only reset when they fall >out). K.S. Subramanian (in 1983-84) had his frets tuned as follows: >1/1 256/243 9/8 32/27 5/4 4/3 45/32 3/2 128/81 27/16 16/9 15/8 So a Pythagorean chain of twelve notes from 8192/6561 to 27/16, but the first three notes displaced by a schisma (2 cents). Ignoring this interval, which is a bit too small for the Ensoniq VFX/SD, I happen to have programmed this same tuning (starting on D) for an organ timbre, to represent the schismatic tunings of the late middle ages. It's a Pythagorean tuning from G-flat to B, which was the example given in the New Grove. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 21:32 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA18932; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 21:32:38 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03835 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id MAA23572; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 12:30:37 -0800 Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 12:30:37 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu