source file: mills3.txt Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 21:32:01 +0100 Subject: Woodwind technologies and tuning From: Daniel Wolf One of the most interesting musicians around is the flutist and composer Ann La Berge (recordings and scores available form Frog Peak Music). She has taken advantage of the fact that using a flute designed for 12tet to play in another intonation is going to be done at - depending on how you hear it - either the cost of lost timbral smoothness or the benefit of gained timbral variety. An analogy could be made to the quality early woodwind instruments (and t= he hand horn) take on when they are played in keys requiring cross fingering= s. The choice is something like the following: if you want an evenness if to= ne quality throughout the registers in an alternative tuning, you probably (wide-reeded bassoons, auloi, nagaswaram and piri being possible exceptions) have to physically modify exiting instruments or build new on= es with appropriate keyworks. If, on the other hand, you accept or even wish= to cultivate variation in tone color, then historical and contemporary woodwind provide excellent resources. Now - who's ready for a trio of Uilleann Pipes, Sarrousaphone and Serpent= ? SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Aline Surman Subject: various PostedDate: 18-11-97 23:09:13 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: 18-11-97 23:07:52-18-11-97 23:07:53,18-11-97 23:08:01-18-11-97 23:08:02 DeliveredDate: 18-11-97 23:08:02 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 C1256553.00798E29; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 23:07:42 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA02155; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 23:09:13 +0100 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 23:09:13 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA02153 Received: (qmail 1541 invoked from network); 18 Nov 1997 14:09:10 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Nov 1997 14:09:10 -0800 Message-Id: <34721BAE.4E7F@dnvr.uswest.net> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu