source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 11:00:29 -0700 Subject: Re: The Xens have it... From: Paul Kenneth Roser mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) wrote: > Now comes the hard part: Playing it! Let me recommend that you try >using a tuning of all fourths all the way across the fingerboard. I found >that tuning, in my admittedly short time (a couple months or so) with >22TET, to make it a bit easier to deal with the pseudocommas. > I have seen several references on this list to pseudocommas, usually with reference to 22TET, and also recall seeing a reference by Brian McLaren to the 11-limit comma (or perhaps an undecimal comma, I forget which). While I understand what a conventional comma is, I am unfamiliar with either this 22-TET pseudocomma or any undecimal/11-limit comma, and wonder if anyone couls enlighten me. Many thanks, Paul Roser Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 06:08 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA31664; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 06:08:19 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA31724 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id VAA06679; Sat, 26 Apr 1997 21:06:37 -0700 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 21:06:37 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu