source file: mills3.txt Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 11:05:02 +0100 Subject: RE: Odds and ends From: "Paul H. Erlich" >>I don't usually concern myself with acoustic instruments, but >>wouldn't a 19 or 22TET flute make more sense than a "quartertone" >>one? > >In an ideal world, yes. But we have to contend with an international pitch >standard of A-440 and 12-tone equal temperament. Quartertones are not a >threat to this standard and have been widely used by twentieth century >composers, unlike the other tunings. There is no pitch standard for 19- or >22-TET. One could decide to set one pitch to 440 Hz, and in the case of >19-TET, one could even call it A. But who would care, in this >piano-keyboard-12-TET dominated world? The modern flute was not easy to >design, and we would need another Boehm to come along and design new, more >complicated mechanisms. In my opinion, this would be wholly worthwhile, and >should have been done 75 years ago. But the reality is that we will have to >contend with 12-centered acoustic instruments for the foreseeable future, >hopefully with a growing population of players being trained in making >precise deviations from 12-TET, especially multiples of twelfth tones, which >yield 72-TET, essentially equivalent to 11-limit (and consistent through >17-limit) JI. > >Anyway, Brian McLaren once mentioned that Ogolevets or some such Russian name >proposed 22-TET early in this century. Anyone know what this was all about? SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Aline Surman Subject: next step in tunings PostedDate: 25-11-97 09:52:44 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: 25-11-97 13:24:12-25-11-97 13:24:14,25-11-97 13:24:15-25-11-97 13:24:15 DeliveredDate: 25-11-97 13:24:15 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.0044211F; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 13:24:09 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01764; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 13:25:49 +0100 Received: from ns.NL.net by ns (smtpxd); id XA01762 Received: by ns.NL.net (5.65b/NLnet1.3) id AA24071; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 09:52:44 +0100 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 09:52:44 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns.NL.net (5.65b/NLnet1.3) id AA24067; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 09:52:42 +0100 Received: (qmail 21562 invoked from network); 22 Nov 1997 23:51:33 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Nov 1997 23:51:33 -0800 Message-Id: <3477EA37.1E0D@dnvr.uswest.net> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu