Hi Mike,
Interesting comments. We have a very good jazz program here and I'd
be very interested in trying to explore this with them.
I don't have my SAT book with me here at home, but aren't there offsets
in that to tune Meantone? (At the risk of needing a flame suit to even
mention such heresy!) :-)
Have you used Meantone there? If so, what had been the reaction. I'd
really be interested in hearing your comments.
Thanks.
Avery
Though meantone is the genre of the early baroque, it has much to offer
>the contemporary musician, -especially the jazz musician. The quasi pure
>intervals, particularly the seventh chords are simply ethereal. Even the
>wolves
>have an expression which could really be useful for certain musical
>applications. I hope that no talented composer will be denied access to
>meantone or live and die without being exposed to it.
> Eventually someone will surely compose a hit in meantone,
> especially with
>the proliferation of synthesizers equipped to play in it. After this
>happens we
>will all start offering it to the general public and will be regularly
>requested
>to tune it. Nobody should fear that day, as equal temperament is by far the
>most difficult of temperaments to tune.
> IMHO tuners are artists and as such have artistic liberty to tune as they
>wish. The only time they don't is when it is for another artist, as in
>the case
>of a concert. Here the concert artist or the composer is the lead artist
>so the
>tuner must stay within their reasonable expected parameters.
> I hope we will continue to educate the music world on the value of
>various temperaments and the seasoning with which they can enhance music.
>
>-Mike Jorgensen RPT --but longs to be a true "tuning artist."
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