source file: mills3.txt Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 00:44:35 +0100 Subject: Re: Frenchaphones From: Johnny Reinhard Jim French is indeed the inventor of Frenchaphones, a family of single-reed winds capable of bullseyeing 19ET. He was upset last I spoke with him because the last large LA quake destroyed a number of his prototypes. The tuning is achieved by a system of washer tone holes that slide in set directions. Apparently when Boehm made a Boehm-system bassoon it was trounced from all quarters and resides somewhere in a museum. It would seem that the tone holes on the bassoon are where they are primarily because that's the allowable stretch between human fingers. I've a grad student at NYU that has a professional model Puchner with keys over some of the tone holes because her hands are on the smaller size. Fine tuning on a bassoon is often accomplished by using medical tape to build up tone holes so as to lower its pitch. The practice is widespread amongst professional players. 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 SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: "Flynn M. Cohen" Subject: music @ mills PostedDate: 26-11-97 23:40:51 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 26-11-97 23:39:14-26-11-97 23:39:14,26-11-97 23:39:14-26-11-97 23:39:14 DeliveredDate: 26-11-97 23:39:14 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C125655B.007C6F84; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 23:39:10 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03373; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 23:40:51 +0100 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 23:40:51 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03371 Received: (qmail 19308 invoked from network); 26 Nov 1997 14:40:47 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Nov 1997 14:40:47 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu