At 07:52 2/14/2005 -0700, you wrote: >Well, it seems that "Picasso Tuning" is well defined already. The >off-hand way my customer used it wasn't in that vein. Put it this way, >some notes were in excess of 15 cents out of usual relationship with both >their neighbors (not identifiably part of a well-temperament pattern or >necessarily continued in octaves). "Impressionist" might be a polite way >to refer to that kind of tuning. ;-) > >Andrew Obviously not being aware of the McKlveen reference, I also took it as being somewhat less than complimentary. Conrad Hoffsommer, RPT, MPT, CCT, PFP, ACS, CRS. Decorah, IA - Certified Calibration Technician for Bio-powered Digitally Activated Lever Action Tone Generation Systems. - Pianotech Flamesuit Purveyor - American Curmudgeon Society - Apprentice Member and Founder
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