source file: mills3.txt Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 11:04:06 +0100 Subject: Re: next step in tunings From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) >My personal wish is that there is no new tuning to replace >12eq...then, we'll eventually be in the same dead end we're in now. The only plausible excuse for any one tuning replacing 12TET, would be that exploring it requires the entire efforts of every human being in the World for however long it dominates. I'd be amazed if any tuning system exists that requires THAT much attention. Even so, I have met quite a few who profess that they don't want to get into new tunings because they feel that 12TET has not been sufficiently explored yet. So I suppose it's a matter of just how much exploration we should do in a tuning before we deem it as, for realistic purposes, fully explored. With all of the myriads of other tunings available, I'd be inclined to think that, should some new tuning system come to dominate, that we'd be better off moving on even if that tuning has clearly not been fully explored. That because of the laws of diminishing returns: We could probably always eek out a little more from just about any tuning, but the first 20% exploration of most any new tuning will usually reveal more interesting musical possibilities than the last 10% of another. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) Subject: Listening to Your Own Music PostedDate: 25-11-97 11:04:06 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: 25-11-97 11:02:38-25-11-97 11:02:39,25-11-97 11:02:41-25-11-97 11:02:41 DeliveredDate: 25-11-97 11:02:41 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 C125655A.00372822; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 11:02:27 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA00573; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 11:04:06 +0100 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 11:04:06 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA00566 Received: (qmail 26763 invoked from network); 23 Nov 1997 02:00:41 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Nov 1997 02:00:41 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu