source file: mills3.txt Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 09:51:26 +0200 Subject: Jacques DUDON From: Didier ASCHOUR I come back from a workshop organized by Jacques DUDON on construction of a monochord. As he lives very near the Abbaye du Thoronet we also went there to sing: It was an unforgetable experience! (It is considered as one of the best acoustic in the world for overtones). I stayed few days after the workshop to work with Jacques and had the pleasure to play some of his marvelous instruments: The Photo-Sonic Disks, of course, but also the Chandravina, a very long monochord played with a bootleneck where both parts of the strings are amplified, the Aquavina, a dulcimer-like with aquatic resonator fretted in Arabic and Persian just scales. A whole set of "baton-bouteille" (wood stick with bootle resonator) tuned in Slendro and many others. We planed to make a Just Intonation Band for concerts next spring. He already made some Disks (photo-sonic) related to my copy of H.Partch's Adapted guitar, and I'll order a new fingerboard (on my interchangeable fingerboard classical guitar) in a just Heptatonic scale called by Jacques "Mohajira" and I found a process to make interchangeable frets on my electric fretless which will be tuned to a Slendro. We expect to have a keyboard player (micro-tuning), one or two string players (including me) and some percussion players. Everyone living in France or near interested is welcome! Didier Aschour microMegas: http://www.teaser.fr/~micro.html P.S: I am working on a new issue (#3) of microMegas in which there will be a special "dossier" on Micro-Minimalists Arnold Dreyblatt, Rhys Chatam and Glenn Branca. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: 101710.2145@CompuServe.COM Subject: notation thanks PostedDate: 17-08-97 12:28:14 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 17-08-97 12:28:14-17-08-97 12:28:14,17-08-97 12:26:20-17-08-97 12:26:21 DeliveredDate: 17-08-97 12:26:21 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA v1.1 (385.6 5-6-1997)) with SMTP id C12564F6.00398287; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 12:28:09 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA32367; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 12:28:14 +0200 Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 12:28:14 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA32372 Received: (qmail 10870 invoked from network); 17 Aug 1997 10:28:06 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Aug 1997 10:28:06 -0000 Message-Id: <970817102529_101710.2145_IHN65-1@CompuServe.COM> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu