On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:19:38AM -0400, Michal Seta wrote: > "Dave Griffiths" <dave@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I've just added scala (http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala/) support to my > > sequencer, and as much as I like playing in the scale of "Empirical Tibetian > > Ceremonial", I'd quite like to jam with people :) > You mean to tell me that you actually tune to others to jam? I don't > believe you... > Depending on what kind of music you're doing, I found it quite > fascinating to use my microtonal guitar (some variant of just > intonation, 21 notes to the octave which was in fact made with help > of Scala) in jams with a slightly-out-tune yamaha electric piano and gamba > (tuned to a=415Hz, baroque style). Well, sometimes we do tune down to > 415Hz but mixing tuning systems (12ET, out-of-tune 12ET, JI) is > fascinating. But then, we often avoid pitches altogether so it > doesn't matter much... We got a piano for free that didn't stay in tune for more than an hour after the piano tech left. I'm having lots of fun with it. ;-D -Eric Rz.
