source file: m1430.txt Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 22:15:38 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re:24TET Flute From: Johnny Reinhard There are many dedicated microtonal flutists throughout the world. Robert Dick plays unsystemitized microtones, neither just nor equal. Andrew Bolotowsky of the AFMM Ensemble has played in a myriad of tunings on flute (AFMM flutist). Stefani Starin plays dead on JI flute with Newband, which she co-directs. John Fonville, Ann LeBerge, Bruce Gremo, Pierre Yves Artaud, and others with whom I am as yet unfamiliar. Three are numerous fingering charts for flute since the mid-eighteenth century. Howell's early flute work featured a 31-TET fingering chart in 1974 (The Avant-Garde Flute, University of California Press). There was a tough period when Bartolozzi's _New Sounds For Woodwinds_ printed quartertone fingerings for flute that didn't work. Toru Takemitsu was really burned by this when he wrote _Voice_ and other flute works utilizing Bartolozzi's fingerings. Open hole flute or closed hole flute? No contest, Robert Dick has the only open hole bass flute - I believe - in the world. (He had it made.) Robert is now living in Zurich, Switzerland. He has a private press called Mutliple Breath. I learned to circular breathe using his book for circular breathing on the flute. Couldn't have done it without him. Very straight forward. He says his style of microtonal composition stems from his years as a Yale composition student working primarily with tape music, cutting and splicing. Johnny Reinhard Director American Festival of Microtonal Music 318 East 70th Street, Suite 5FW New York, New York 10021 USA (212)517-3550/fax (212) 517-5495 reinhard@idt.net http://www.echonyc.com/~jhhl/AFMM