David Andersen's whole-note tuning

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Sat Dec 1 19:24:49 MST 2007


>The different way of listening is that you 
> don't consciously focus on individual partials.  You listen to all the 
> partials blending  together, and try to focus on the natural beat. 

I must admit this has always baffled me. Is it possible to do 
this any other way? The beats heard *are* natural, aren't 
they? How does one listen to a specific partial, excluding 
everything else? Is this a fundamental [sic] duh, or am I on 
the wrong planet - again. I still don't get it. Who's tuning 
by unnatural beats, and how can we stop them?


> It would probably be helpful to read Virgil's book.  I was fortunate to 
> have attended his class two different times.  But I've not yet purchased 
> his book.

I've read his journal article, and attended one class, and 
it's still a well - yea - and(?) thing. Somewhat short of 
helpful. Either it's a natural job for Obvious Man, or I'm 
hopelessly deluded (a possibility not remotely out of the 
question).

Ron N


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