Alan - We have a 16-station Korg keyboard lab, with a GEC (teacher controller), etc. The keyboards have some pre-set historical temperaments, although I don't know which ones, or how many. I've been meaning to look into it in my spare time... -Zeno On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:08 PM, <reggaepass at aol.com> wrote: > List, > This past summer I had a long meeting with my dean. We covered everything > from what I like and don't like about working here (all matters large and > small) to additional funding for the piano shop and the prospects for > enhanced compensation for yours truly. He responded well to many of my > suggestions along these lines. One was that the piano shop start being > reimbursed for any unusual tunings. Until now, this has meant alternative, > modern tunings (anywhere on the spectrum from simply tuning one piano down > 50 cents for quarter tone music to realizing original tuning systems). This > service had been freely provided as an indulgence to the students and > faculty, creating more of a burden for me without any extra > compensation--the bad scenario articulated by Jeff Tanner. My dean has > since agreed to compensation for the piano shop in exchange for any unusual > tuning work. Here is how we have structured the procedure: Someone requests > a non-ET/440 tuning; I make a binding estimate for how much time it should > take; we multiply that times a wholesale private rate (i. e., less than I > would charge someone privately, but more than what my salaried rate at the > school comes out to per hour); they determine if/how it will be paid for, > and we go from there. It turns out that the composition department, for > example, has funds for "programming" which can be used for paying for > alternate tunings. This has been a positive development in that i t is a > source of income for the shop while also serving as a, er, "consciousness > raiser" for those who dabble in alternate tunings as part of their work. > I am considering trying to include historical tunings under this same > umbrella. I have yet to put one on a piano here (harpsichords only, so far). > The current plan is this: Set up a work station that would enable pianists > to play their pieces on an 88 note weighted keyboard controller hooked up to > a computer that can provide piano samples in any number of historical > tunings. Ideally, the pianist would be able to change from one tuning > system to another at the push of a button. In addition to the educational > value such an opportunity would potentially have in and of itself, it could > serve as the "menu" for ordering up a particular tuning (compensation > provided!) for performance on an actual piano. Am I trying to reinvent the > wheel here, or does someone already have something like this up and running? > Cheers, > Alan Eder > ________________________________ > You can't always choose whom you love, but you can choose how to find them. > Start with AOL Personals.
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