source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 13:23:23 +0200 Subject: 22-tone guitar (Paul E) From: Manuel.Op.de.Coul@ezh.nl (Manuel Op de Coul) From: PErlich My 22-tone 7-string guitar is finally up and running. For now, I have settled on a tuning of 9-9-8-9-9-9 (these are the intervals between the strings, low to high). This allows me to play the 7-limit tetrads as barre chords in root position with the root on the 5th or 6th string (I consider the utonal chord to be in root position when it sounds like a minor sixth chord). After about a week, my fingers have adjusted to the narrower spaces between the frets, and I'm getting pretty quick at knowing which size "whole step" or "minor third" to play at a particular time. I must say that Indian-type melodies work a lot better than Western ones in diatonic scales with two different-sized whole steps, and as long as the Indian influences are creeping in I'm gravitating toward modes like 4-2-5-2-2-5-2, which, as 2-1-3-1-1-3-1 in 12-equal, I pretty much avoided until now . . . Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 15:21 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01189; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 15:21:40 +0200 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 15:21:40 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01223 Received: (qmail 29830 invoked from network); 3 Jun 1997 13:20:29 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Jun 1997 13:20:29 -0000 Message-Id: <33938D7A@fsdsmtpgw.fsd.jhuapl.edu> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu