---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment That sounds like something I heard Owen Jorgensen talking about once. If so, it's definitely not a simple tune the first time. If you are really interested and serious about it, I would probably give him a call for imput. Otherwise- ........."wing it". They know the request is way out there going into it, which should imply some flexibility. Dennis Johnson St. Olaf College ____________ Otto Keyes wrote: > Unless these things are incredibly well crafted, I think you will find > the tuning anything but "standard", even within the prescribed > tunings/tempraments. I would doubt that in the final analysis there > will be little to be gained by investing a great deal of worry in the > process. Do your homework, tune your best, & let the gamelan sound > where it may. Where/how it is struck, mallets used, etc., will alter > the pitch significantly from its original, out-of-tune state, so I > don't think I'd sweat it much. Chock it up to creative dissonance. > :-) Otto > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mitch Staples > To: College and University Technicians > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 10:04 AM > Subject: Gamelan Tunings > In a couple of weeks I will be tuning a piano that will be > used in a concerto for piano with Javanese Gamelan composed > by Lou Harrison. I understand that there are at least two > standard tunings (I assume they mean temperaments) for > Javanese Gamelan, Slendro and Pelog. I was supposed to get > instructions for this special tuning but it looks like I'm > going to have to wing it. Has any one tuned for this > piece? Any suggestions?Mitch Staples > ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/04/cd/4c/a0/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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