source file: mills3.txt Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 23:03:15 +0200 Subject: Thank You Very Much From: Peter.Blasser@oberlin.edu Thank you very much for your kind response. John Chalmers is awesome, and I will definately pick up a copy of "Divisions of the Tetrachord. I'm just a first year student here, and I plan to make a Kithara as my winter term project. I've made several before, but I plan to add an "arithmetically progressed" fretboard based on 16/16 utonality. Although I am quite a newcomer, I still find the modal approach to harmoniai more worthy than the verbose syntax of the volume in which it is expounded. I think that such phenomena as the perfect fourth interval that is being "transposed" throughout the series of modal harmoniai, the removable bulbs on auloi, which can be stacked on one another, and the ease of an early human to construct an arithmetically proportioned instrument to be very valid points. The fact is, though, it's just a theory, and I would never debate with you, who evidently have more experience in the whole field of Just Intonation and tuning. Nevertheless, I plan to research and critically restudy KS book. Along with classics at Oberlin, I am pursuing a major in TIMARA/ComputerSci. I would like to write a user friendly just intonation program that includes many ethnic models as well as extended Partch theories. The keyword is user friendly- I would like to make it possible for the most amateur to explore these possibilities, but yet it wouldn't be a toy. Do you think this is a noble cause? And finally, what kind of jobs do all of you "tuners" have? What kind of tuning related careers would be open to me when I leave college? Thanks for living with my naivete. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [Peter Blasser, Oberlin College Mailroom Box #277, Oberlin, Ohio ,. [Peter.Blasser@Oberlin.edu . . . . +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Peter.Blasser@oberlin.edu Subject: So Kind PostedDate: 13-09-97 00:42:39 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: 15-09-97 10:14:03-15-09-97 10:14:04,15-09-97 10:13:22-15-09-97 10:13:22 DeliveredDate: 15-09-97 10:13:22 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA v1.1 (385.6 5-6-1997)) with SMTP id C1256510.007CBDB4; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 00:42:30 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA32661; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 00:42:39 +0200 Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 00:42:39 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA32650 Received: (qmail 4603 invoked from network); 12 Sep 1997 22:42:33 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Sep 1997 22:42:33 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu