source file: m1545.txt
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 09:38:21 -0500 (CDT)

Subject: Re: TUNING digest 1543

From: Paul Hahn <Paul-Hahn@library.wustl.edu>

On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Kraig Grady wrote:
>     Also in regard to the history of microtonal music in xenharmonikon
> XVII , there is the whole ethnocentric problem that everyone else in the
> world has been exploring microtones all along. Isd it really relevant.
> Wolf omissions are to be noted but why not include any and all
> percussion music. Soon or later it becomes so inclusive that the term
> microtonal becomes meaningless.

This may not be an altogether bad thing.  I recently quoted a saying
from chaos theory that "talking about non-linear systems is like talking
about non-elephant animals", and I think much the same can be said about
non-12TET music.

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