source file: m1606.txt Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 21:57:19 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Partch From: Johnny Reinhard Bob Gilmore's Partch bio turns up an interesting bit in a letter from 1950. Contrary to the Jon Szanto position regarding the substitution of a sythesizer for the chromelodeon. Mr. Szanto, I move for you to strike from the record (e.g. your web site) this unfair statement. The web site reads: "If Mr.Reinhard has used a syth, then he has either ignored or simply not comprehended a Partch truism..." Partch writes in February to Lauriston Marshall (on p. 190 of the Gilmore book) "I shall use the Chromelodeon very little from now on; its musicality doesn't satisfy me, though it is indispensible from the standpoint of theory..."the need either for an electronic tone or a reed made out of some alloy less susceptible to temperature changes than brass." On April 6 Partch and Marshall won a Guggenheim Award for "studies toward the development of an electronic instrument with electronic tone and manual keyboard." (Gilmore p. 191) What do y'all think? Should I be impeached? 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