source file: mills3.txt Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 07:01:13 +0100 Subject: Steel guitarists' tuning names From: "Bob Lee" >> The temperment >>debate among steel guitarists is quite simple: JI vs. 12TET (though they >>call them by different names. >Cool, what do they call them, Bob? >Erik Nauman JI is called "tuning the beats out" by some steel guitarists, and "temper tuning" by others. 12TET actually is called "equal tempered" more often than not, but I also hear it called "straight up" sometimes (in reference to the needle on an electronic tuner). The idea of more than 12 tones per octave is alien to most steel guitarists, as it is to pop musicians in general. Our biggest concern is not sounding out of tune with the electronic keyboard and other electric instruments. But at the same time most of us can't bear equal temperament - our instruments can sound so much better than that! -b0b- ----- quasar@wco.com (Bobby Lee) http://wco.com/~quasar/ SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: "Bob Lee" Subject: re: 19-tone Fret Lengths PostedDate: 18-12-97 07:01:50 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: 18-12-97 06:59:51-18-12-97 06:59:52,18-12-97 06:59:29-18-12-97 06:59:29 DeliveredDate: 18-12-97 06:59:29 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 C1256571.0020ED5A; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 07:01:35 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA18691; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 07:01:50 +0100 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 07:01:50 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA18683 Received: (qmail 23634 invoked from network); 17 Dec 1997 22:01:33 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Dec 1997 22:01:33 -0800 Message-Id: <01bd0b7a$201b0800$675e04c7@default> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu