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Re: Microtonality

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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>I've got a friend named Ken Rubenstein who 
has a 
cd out of this amazingly microtonal stuff (indian shenhai's done from 
guitar 
synths) and LOTS of loops and he has what i believe to be the perfect 
vibrato 
arm. He can do so much with quarter steps and eighth steps and he only 
uses a 12 
tone guitar. Although he's been wanting to get a fretless with marks for 
quarter 
steps. You might want to check him out. If you've got ahold of any old 
Guitar 
Player magazines...he won the LAST soundpage competition and is in there, 
but 
his music is now more in the indian and Scottish music's mixed with utter 
wierdness. If you'd like i can give you his address.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT><FONT size=2>Jeff</FONT></DIV>
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    <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><B>-----Original 
Message-----</B><BR><B>From: 
    </B>Woehni &lt;<A 
    href="mailto:hovard@online.no">hovard@online.no</A>&gt;<BR><B>To: 
    </B>COLLINSCLAN &lt;<A 
    
href="mailto:collinsclan@sprintmail.com">collinsclan@sprintmail.com</A>&gt;;
 
    <A 
    
href="mailto:Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com">Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com</A>
 
    &lt;<A 
    
href="mailto:Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com">Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com</A>&gt;<BR><B>Date:
 
    </B>Tuesday, April 28, 1998 3:48 PM<BR><B>Subject: </B>SV: 
    Microtonality<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>
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        <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial><FONT size=3>Hi Jeff , The 
other day 
        I discovered a great thing about the singing of Chet 
        Baker.</FONT></FONT><FONT size=3></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
        <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial><FONT 
size=3></FONT></FONT><FONT 
        size=3><FONT face=Arial>I was transcribing his scat-solo on 
&quot;all of 
        you&quot; from the cd Chet baker Sings Again.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
        <DIV><FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial></FONT><FONT face=Arial>He 
makes his 
        vocal phrases and lines sound so great because he uses 
quartersteps 
        in</FONT></FONT></DIV>
        <DIV><FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial></FONT></FONT><FONT 
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        face=Arial>his pitches here and there.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
        <DIV><FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial></FONT></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
        <DIV><FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial>&nbsp;To me , this was an 
amazing 
        discovery , because it led me to two 
realizations:</FONT></FONT></DIV>
        <DIV><FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial>1. Microtonality can exist in 
tonal 
        music and can be a great tool to make old phrases come 
        alive.</FONT></FONT><FONT size=3>&nbsp;</FONT></DIV>
        <DIV><FONT size=3>2. No way in hell am I gonna be able to play 
Chat 
        Baker scat-solos without working up</FONT></DIV>
        <DIV><FONT size=3>a massive vib-arm technique..........(I`m gonna 
do it 
        , btw)</FONT></DIV>
        <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
        <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
        <DIV><FONT size=3>So there , thats all I know about the 
        subject.</FONT></DIV>
        <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
        <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
        <DIV><FONT size=3>Yours , Thomas W&oslash;hni</FONT></DIV>
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