source file: mills3.txt Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 19:14:18 +0200 Subject: Re: stray thoughts From: Johnny Reinhard Mr. Collins may or may not be right that A=435 is a standard, as compared to my suggested A=440. Historically, it was the music union that insisted in the U.S. to use A=440 because it was deemed unfair to players that couldn't match provincial standards. In NYC it is A=440, while Boston is a point higher. Finland is lower in pitch while France can go higher than Boston. However, the instruments (e.g. bassoon which is not really tuneable) are at A=440 as made in Germany. I do not have absolute pitch, which has been explained in Science magazine as a gene. All in all, perfect pitch is not the coveted blessing many think it is. I had great success recently with a performance of my "Inevitable" for bassoon, clarinet, bass clarinet, and cello. Both the cellist and clarinetist have "microtonally-trained" perfect pitch. For instance, any microtone I played could be instantaneously matched by either cellist David Eggar and clarinetist Michiyo Suzuki (who recently played the Newband King Oedipus piece of Partch's). Johnny Reinhard Director American Festival of Microtonal Music 318 East 70th Street, Suite 5FW New York, New York 10021 USA (212)517-3550/fax (212) 517-5495 reinhard@idt.net http://www.echonyc.com/~jhhl/AFMM SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Greg Schiemer Subject: Scala EXAMPLE with MIDI Csound PostedDate: 19-10-97 00:04:44 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $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: 19-10-97 00:03:55-19-10-97 00:03:56,18-10-97 23:04:37-18-10-97 23:04:38 DeliveredDate: 18-10-97 23:04:38 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C1256534.00793464; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 00:03:52 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA20602; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 00:04:44 +0200 Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 00:04:44 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA20618 Received: (qmail 3157 invoked from network); 18 Oct 1997 15:04:40 -0700 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Oct 1997 15:04:40 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu