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From: Steve & Anne Price
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 16:04:31 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: augmented triad tuned chromatic

On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, fjm/cja wrote:

>
>
> On 30 Aug 1996, Winslow Yerxa wrote:
> > I'd rather have an instrument that has more to offer, even if it is
> > harder to master. The twentieth century is about expanding
> > possibilities, not about reducing choices to symmetrical uniformity
> > (unless you like the hammer and sickle, symbol of a 19th-century idea
> > that is finally getting the heave-ho in most parts of the world).
> >
> I like it tuning systems equated to political idealoligies. What's the
> diatonic? Libertarian? Chromatic? An interseting way of arguing,
> equate the tuning with a political system that's sigmatized and
> polarizing. What's wrong with just using all of that nice logic that
> preceded this paragraph and leaving it at that? Now that I know the 20th
> century is about expanding possibilities I'm curious as to the 2 word
> description of the 21st. Isn't there an ad term for this type of device,
> negative association? fjm
>
The hammer and sickle? I thought the 20th century's great achievement
was the golden arches. Aren't all the alternative harmonica companies
selling vastly more Richter tuned harps than any other tuning? Me, I've
always been a cheese burger and fries kind of guy, but I like to splurge
on a Big Mac once in a while. So, let's see, should it be natural minor
with ketchup or a harmonica minor with party purity?

Steve Price (just starting to get the hang of major keys)