source file: m1408.txt Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 09:41:05 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: Steve Vai in Guitar World (Digest 1405, Topic 11) From: Paul Hahn On Wed, 6 May 1998, Mark Nowitzky wrote: > >VAI: I've done some kooky things that involved dividing > >up the fretboard. I have a guitar that has 24 frets to > >the octave and one that has 16 frets to the octave, so > >they're untempered.... > > I know, he should've said: > "... so they're tempered". Well, now, I know this isn't necessarily what he meant, but it _could_ be that they're fretted for 24- and 16-tone JI scales. He didn't say explicitly that they were 24TET or 16TET, did he? --pH http://library.wustl.edu/~manynote O /\ "Churchill? Can he run a hundred balls?" -\-\-- o NOTE: dehyphenate node to remove spamblock. <*>