source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 18:02:17 +0200 Subject: Re: Thai tunings From: Daniel Wolf The figures that Graham cites from Manuel's table are probably taken fromHelmholtz-Ellis, which are monochord measurements of single instruments that had somehow made the long searoute to Europe. I would thus take these figures with more than a grain of salt, and would by no means accept these figures as a definitive representation of Thai practice. In my most recent contacts with mainland southeastasian musical instruments (Thai, Cambodian and Laotian), I have heard very accurate 7-tet tunings. In fact, I spoke last Winter with a Laotian Khaen maker and player (now living in France) who said that he used a digital tuner and that he had both sent cassettes with his instruments and tuners back to Laos where other makershad duplicated his tunings or adopted the use of the digital tuners. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 18:27 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA22360; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 18:27:25 +0200 Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 18:27:25 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA22361 Received: (qmail 23623 invoked from network); 14 Jun 1997 16:27:19 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Jun 1997 16:27:19 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu