source file: m1353.txt Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 20:56:15 +0000 Subject: Re: TUNING digest 1351 From: Mojisola Olubobokun tuning@eartha.mills.edu wrote: > TUNING Digest 1351 > > Topics covered in this issue include: > > 1) Conversion kits for pianos > by "Patrick Ozzard-Low" > 2) Temperament in English Virginal Music > by rumsong@cadvision.com (Gordon Rumson) > 3) Re: 7TET, Reply to Paul H. Erlich > by "Ed & Alita Morrison" > 4) microtnl autoharp > by Erik Nauman > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Topic No. 1 > > Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:08:26 +0000 > From: "Patrick Ozzard-Low" > To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu > Subject: Conversion kits for pianos > Message-ID: <199803111657.QAA14924@imail.norfolk.gov.uk> > > Judith Conrad wrote: > > > I saw on rec.musicmakers.piano the other day that Story and Clark piano > > company sells conversion kits for putting electronic innards into old junk > > pianos. Anyone know anything about this? Are they tunable? I was once > > given an 88-note silent keyboard... > > I have seen a number of these systems - including MIDI compatible > ones. There is a company in Cambridge UK which specialises in such > transformations, and there certainly used to be various > do-it-yourself kits available. I can't remember the names of them > now (there was one available some years ago called 'Crystal Keys') - > but at some point when I have time I could find out easily enough. > (By 'electronic innards' I'm assuming you mean sensors under the > piano keys which pick up note on/off, velocity, and presumably some > thing to do with the sustain pedal - rather than player-piano type > innards?). To damp the piano some very heavy felt or even felted > wire to catch the hammers will do, tho you wouldn't need it on the > silent keyboard. > > > >Are they tunable? > > As tunable as the MIDI device you play it through. > > Patrick O-L > > ------------------------------ > > Topic No. 2 > > Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:15:01 -0700 > From: rumsong@cadvision.com (Gordon Rumson) > To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu > Subject: Temperament in English Virginal Music > Message-ID: > > Greetings, > > I'm still working on the temperament lecture and want to thank those people > for their helpful suggestions and advice in previous posts. > > But as I ponder this material one question pops up as an aside: what > temperament would be suitable for English Virginal music? I just played > through a Fantasy ut, re mi etc, by John Bull from the Fitzwilliam > collection. There is a note: > > 'This interesting experiment in enharmonic modulation is thus tentatively > expressed in the MS; the passage proves that some kind of "equal > temperament" must have been employed at this date.' > > I doubt that it proves that. But what temperament would have been > characteristic of the time? > > All best wishes, > > Gordon Rumson > > Canadian Pianist and Composer > > Founder and Proprietor of Sikesdi Press > Music Publishers of the "New and Little Known" > Music by Sorabji, Johansen, Mellers, Flynn, ApIvor and others. > Please visit our Web Page at: > http://www.cadvision.com/Home_Pages/accounts/liszt/SikesdiPressWebpage.html > > ------------------------------ > > Topic No. 3 > > Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 01:36:56 -0600 > From: "Ed & Alita Morrison" > To: > Subject: Re: 7TET, Reply to Paul H. Erlich > Message-ID: <199803120734.BAA22591@mail2.texas.net> > > I have been looking at 5 and 7 TET scales and also pelog and slendro and > others which are not equal tempered scales. They are interesting, but I > need to spend more time on them to use them. That will take time. ALITA > MORRISON > > ------------------------------ > > Topic No. 4 > > Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 08:17:17 -0500 > From: Erik Nauman > To: "'tuning@eartha.mills.edu'" > Subject: microtnl autoharp > Message-ID: > > Check the Deep Listening Space web page for a performance I'm giving > with Doug Cohen on April 4. Doug uses all kinds of electronic > manipulation in his music and I will perform four pieces for a > microtonal autoharp tuned to an 11-limit just intonation. If you're in > the Kingston neck of the woods, drop in! > > http://www.deeplistening.org/events.html > > ------------------------------ > > End of TUNING Digest 1351 > *************************