source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 14:23:42 -0700 Subject: RE: Neanderthal From: Johnny Reinhard Yes, Gary, we were saying the same thing in different ways. The only exception might be that "visually" at least what I saw was pretty equidistant. The odds that the Neanderthal had worked out an "equal temperament" are larger than the New York Lottery on a high yield night, though. Spoofs on April 1st must be more earnestly looked for, I'm afraid. New York's Channel 1 on cable started its news segment with Mayor Guiliani taking Janet Reno's spot in D.C. It was rendered professionally and seemed quite believeable...until he said "April's Fools!" An example that got my craw (and still disappoints me) was an early Ear Magazine article purporting to divine the tuning used by Benjamin Franklin in his sole string quartet. Even aside from the question of authorship of the string quartet (no longer thought to be Ben Franklin's in musicological circles), this was a non-April's Fools day article that pretended 5-limit just intonation for the piece. Sadly, I believed this "article," surrounded by a legacy of valuable Ear articles. I caught up with the admitted perpetrater at a La Monte Young concert that we were both performing in. La Monte later told me afterward he felt bad that he had taught the just intonation principles to the "funster" in composition lessons. The ideas were lifted and used fancifully under a false name to claim a false discovery. Perhaps if he had written his spoof on a clear April 1st I would be more accepting of his deception. Johnny Reinhard 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 Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 18:31 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA00734; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 18:31:00 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA00732 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id JAA17460; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 09:26:34 -0700 Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 09:26:34 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu