source file: m1342.txt Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 11:26:18 -0700 (MST) Subject: Re: Ken Wauchope's music From: John Starrett All- I accidentally screwed up some of Ken Wauchope's MIDI work, "O vos omnes" by Carlo Gesualdo which he performed and tuned to 1/3 comma meantone. It has been autostarting on my Microtonal Music Page for about a month, and it IS NOT KEN'S WORK, but rather my screwup that people have been hearing. I apologize to Ken and any list members who had to listen to it. On the question of fretted versus fretless basses for microtonal music, for just intonation fretless is great, as you can tune to the beats in real time. For equal tempered music the fretted bass is certainly easier to start with, as the intervals take some getting used to. A lined fretless is ideal if one has the resources to have a different instrument for each tuning. At the first Microstock Microtonal Music Concert I heard a cello played very well in 19tet, so with a great ear a lined instrument is not necessary (although I am not giving up my lines). John Starrett http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret