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Eric Williamson wrote: > 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. If I understand your comments, I get the impression that you think a microtonal scale has to have more than 12 notes. This is not the case. > 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 That would take all the grease out of the organ! -- * David Beardsley * microtonal guitar * http://biink.com/db