anyone know of these guys?

[Geoff Sykes]

The really wonderful thing about Wikipedia is that if you disagree with an
entry you can change it yourself. And by you I mean "YOU". It's sort of an
encyclopedia by and for the people. It's therefore self correcting. And a
recent study found that it contains no more errors in it, in fact probably
fewer, than the real Encyclopedia.

Terry Riley has been around for decades and is most well known for his
orchestral piece "In C".

La Monte Young is one of the premier groundbreakers in minimalism. Terry
Riley arrived as a result of Young's compositions.

Michael Harrison, is more knows for his alternative tunings and is also of
the school of minimalism, was a student of many of that genre, including
Terry Riley.

There are all sorts of temperaments and tunings, don't you know. In fact, in
the extreme, at last year's California State Conference one well known
manufacturer, (I'm sorry I don't remember who), had on display a microtonal
piano. A specially built upright, (they build less than a dozen a year and
only by special order), it has 88 keys but spans only one octave. Something
like C5 to C5 spread out over 88 keys. Very wonderful.

-- Geoff Sykes
-- Assoc. Los Angeles






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From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Don
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:26 AM
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Subject: anyone know of these guys?


Hi all,

I was looking up something about care and maintenance and surfed here:

Tiny url:

http://tinyurl.com/b4nwl

Complete url:

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=1ur98024h1kcs?method=4&dsid=2
222&dekey=Care+and+maintenance+of+pianos&gwp=8&curtab=2222_1&sbid=lc04a&link
text=Care%20and%20maintenance%20of%20pianos

The article mentions "There are a growing number of musicians and composers
who are tuning the piano in order to achieve different kinds of harmony not
possible with equal temperament tuning (normally found on the piano).
Examples of such persons are La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Michael
Harrison - to name a few. Their tunings create never before heard of
combinations of intervals (some large and some "micro") that lend themselves
to many beautiful and interesting new harmonies, scales, and textural
effects not possible in equal temperament. Of course, these brands of tuning
are limited by the internal structure of the instrument itself. One must be
very careful because the soundboard or "plate" can only hold so much tension
before it breaks."

Does anyone know these folks?

It certainly sounds as if the Wikipeda folks are anti non equal
temperment--using a scare tactic of plate breaking.

Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat

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