source file: m1370.txt
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 14:57:55 +0100 (BST)

Subject: Re: Error Condition Re: Klezmer tunings

From: REUBEN EWAN JACOBS <rjacobs@lgu.ac.uk>

> Hello, my name is Reuben Jacobs. I'm a 2nd year BSC Musical Instrument  
> Technology student at London Guildhall University and I am starting a 
> project in which the aim is to retune a MIDI keyboard to a 
> tuning other than equal temperament and to then create a MIDI file of a 
> composition written in this tuning.
> 
> The tuning I would most like to use is a Klezmer tuning. However, I have 
> had difficulty finding such a tuning written down. I would therefore be 
> very grateful if someone could send me details of a Klezmer tuning and a 
> composition written using it (I was told of this address by my teacher 
> Tony Salinas).
> 
> During my research into this subject (in the very few books that I have 
> found which mention Klezmer) I have started to get the feeling that maybe 
> Klezmer tuning is very close to equal temperament. I'm sure taht someone 
> will know. If this is the case I would really appreciate if somebody 
> could send me deatils of another Jewish tuning (such as a Greek, 
> Iranian, Yemeni, Landino, Turkish etc tuning)  which is noticeably different 
> from equal temperaemet.
> 
> If someone does manage to help me I will more than be happy to send them a 
> copy of my MIDI file when my project is complete. THANKYOU.
>