source file: mills3.txt Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:54:47 +0100 Subject: misc. From: Paul Rapoport Having been away for a while, I've just caught up on the tuning lists of the last ten days. (It took awhile to recover from meeting Erv Wilson and many other fabulous tunists in L.A.) Indeed, let me repeat John Pusey's remark that the Bosanquet book is very much in print. In fact, all the Diapason Press publications are worth having. There are three series, involving music and books. For a simple but fun introduction to the 14-note stellated hexany, the Musicworks reference is to No. 60. In that article I didn't discuss everything by any means, but there are some nice diagrams (mostly Erv Wilson's). Paul Hahn rarely makes mistakes, so I will humbly point out that the vernal equinox isn't in May in my part of the world...and I suppose the Latin plural would be equinoctes rather than equinoces, since the stem of the noun nox is noct-. To Neil Haverstick, two points. For some years I was in the habit of keeping a calendar with a starting date of the winter solstice. The problems in doing that are considerable. Oddly, one of them is not syncing with the rest of the world (who cares about that) but in figuring out when the solstice was throughout millenia. I have yet to find an astronomer who cares enough about the answer to give an accurate one. I'd also prefer a week of 6 days and months of 5 such weeks, but don't get me started...the clock I have running in my office is a digital dozenally metric one, with the day divided into nested 12s. Hope that doesn't get me thrown off the tuning list. But 12 is a lot better for counting time than the mishmash we have of 10, 2, 5, 12, and 60. (Don't worry, there are only three of these clocks in existence.) Second point. For a CD, what about resuscitating the "19 for the 90s" project? Of course I have a vested interest in that, having a 19-tET piece almost ready not in the original planned collection. But I'd also be happy to see that collection without my contribution. Maybe Gregg Gibson would become a patron for it... To Joseph Downing: The Johnston 4th quartet does not have any 11s in it, not deliberately, anyhow. Strictly 7-limit, and not always that, because some variations are simpler tuningly (to neologize adverbially). Paul Rapoport SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: "Fred Kohler" Subject: Re: AWE 64G and other gear. PostedDate: 05-01-98 17:29:26 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: 05-01-98 17:26:56-05-01-98 17:26:57,05-01-98 17:26:14-05-01-98 17:26:14 DeliveredDate: 05-01-98 17:26:14 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 C1256583.005A58EC; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 17:28:46 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA18156; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 17:29:26 +0100 Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 17:29:26 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA19354 Received: (qmail 27956 invoked from network); 5 Jan 1998 08:29:22 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Jan 1998 08:29:22 -0800 Message-Id: <000c01bd19f5$862697c0$1e17c2cf@a1a05977> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu