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On Feb 4, 2004, at 6:28 PM, David Beardsley wrote: > Eric Williamson wrote: >> but yes, one of my favourite realities of music in the year 2004 is >> that there is truly nothing new, as our musical opportunities are >> limited by the overtone series of western instruments. > Care to elaborate on that statement? Why limited? ah i forgot about the microtonal aspect, reminded by your sig. i really should have clarified that with the word "diatonic" in between "our" and "musical". i feel that diatonic music is limited by the integer-multiple overtone series. there are only so many ways to string 7 (or 12, if you're into tone rows and that sort of thing) notes together, and every time i try to write a melody, i'm reminded of that. i personally am not interested in using non-diatonic-based tunings in my music, because i don't feel that an appropriate enough combination of interface, instrument, and price point exists yet to make me interested in it. i'm not a guitarist, i'm a keyboardist. when i think about Wendy's Alpha scale it makes my head spin. an instrument i would really like to see that would get me into microtuning would be a digital Hammond organ clone where the digital tonewheels could be tuned to different scales. _That_ would get me excited. especially if it had a "stretch" knob so i could finally play an Hammond in proper tune with a piano! --- Eric Williamson www.suitandtieguy.com