source file: mills3.txt Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 01:07:41 +0200 Subject: Re: TUNING digest 1180 From: DFinnamore@aol.com In a message dated 97-09-16 07:43:10 EDT, you write: > > just a lot easier to tune a synth than a piano or guitar. > > Easier?????? to what precision???? You're right, of course - a guitar fretted specifically for a given non-ET tuning is not hard to tune to that tuning. I should have said "re-tune" rather than "tune." I was thinking of the scenario of experimenting with and writing in several different tunings using the same intruments. Undeniably, pressing a few buttons is easier that breaking out a tuning wrench or refretting a guitar. > > See Charles Lucy's site for a techo-ish band ostensibly using Harrison/ > Lucy > > tuning. On the one hand, it sounds a little different than it would in > > 12-tET; on the other, I think it could have been written in 12-tET so it > > doesn't really seem to show the uniqueness of the tuning. It's a start, > > though. > > Thanks for your enthusiasm David. Sorry! It's true, though, you know. I listened to all of the arc-angel pieces on your site. They are good music if you like that style, but they don't seem to especially highlight the tuning. Not that that's a problem, except that if one wants to hear what "tuned" pop music sounds like, he should listen to a piece that really sounds or feels different than the same piece would in 12-tET or what's the point? But it was the only example I could think of to point out to Peter at the moment. Please don't take that as a criticism of Lucy Tuning. I like it and plan to use it some myself. I applaud your success in extending Harrison's idea and your efforts to promote the tuning. Hey, Peter, now that I think of it, there is a Soundgarden song on "Superunknown" called "The 4th of July." I don't know what tuning it's in, but it's not quite 12-tET! It's a very modal, chant-like melody with guitars tuned about 3-steps below normal and a lot of string bending. Frightful lyric but fascinating music. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: mr88cet@texas.net Subject: Re: JI Pop? Yeah? PostedDate: 17-09-97 06:30:06 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: 17-09-97 06:29:58-17-09-97 06:29:59,17-09-97 06:29:14-17-09-97 06:29:14 DeliveredDate: 17-09-97 06:29:14 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA v1.1 (385.6 5-6-1997)) with SMTP id C1256515.0018B4CE; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 06:29:51 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA04335; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 06:30:06 +0200 Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 06:30:06 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA04347 Received: (qmail 17399 invoked from network); 17 Sep 1997 04:30:00 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Sep 1997 04:30:00 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu