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From: csz@well.UUCP (Carter Scholz)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: gamelan tunings
Keywords: Intonation systems, octaves, tuning systems
Message-ID: <14601@well.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 89 04:34:27 GMT
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In article <6496@cbnemls@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (mike.siemon) wsm.ATT.COM> writes:


Jap Kunst, _Music in Java_ has a number of tunings, recorded in cents,
in appendices.  However, for the purposes of your imagined study they

Yes, Kunst is a standard reference, but mostly of historical importance,
and unreliable on tunings.  He fudged his data by insisting that all
octaves work out to 1200 cents, a European standard that exists on no
gamelan.  (Most octaves are tuned wide, 1200-1240 cents, but occasionally
you find one narrow.)  Illustration of the danger of carrying a system
into a new situation, especially when you're unconscious of carrying it.

Carter Scholz     csz@well.uucp