source file: mills3.txt Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 13:58:29 +0100 Subject: Re: Autoharp and Woodwinds From: Johnny Reinhard While extra keys can add new microtonal combinations, they in themselves get in the way of fluent playing. Yes, this is a challenge on the bassoon. If the instrument can already play microtonally (like the bassoon) it wouldn't help, but hinder its fluid playing to be anymore like the Batman's auxillary belt. I believe there should be enough evidence in Prague for the quartertone clarinets that the Czechs use for their annual performances of Haba's _Matka_. I've know many clarinetists that have mastered various tunings, though each focuses on different intonational terrain. The oboe does not have much room for extra keys and extra keys will make instruments much heavier, besides. There is a fellow in California that developed "Fenchaphones" which are like soprano saxophones (with their respective sizes) that had shiftable tone holes. Washers on the tone holes could be manipulated to slide in set grooves allowing different tunings, including 19ET, and others. I guess the exploration of the standard instruments needs to be through before I would recommend changing their physical form. Each offers so much more than present consciousness allows. 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: A440A@aol.com Subject: Re: TUNING digest 1239 PostedDate: 17-11-97 15:20:22 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: 17-11-97 15:19:05-17-11-97 15:19:05,17-11-97 15:19:15-17-11-97 15:19:16 DeliveredDate: 17-11-97 15:19:16 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 C1256552.004EA231; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 15:18:53 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA00562; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 15:20:22 +0100 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 15:20:22 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA00560 Received: (qmail 24489 invoked from network); 16 Nov 1997 16:46:18 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Nov 1997 16:46:18 -0800 Message-Id: <971116194421_-88388929@mrin45.mail.aol.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu