I have just checked this thread and can find no prior mention to Tony Rooley, so could you please ENLIGHTEN us to what he says on ET or MT that you find unbelievable, or is it a general disbelief in his views that you are expressing?
Mark -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Roman Turovsky Gesendet: Samstag, 26. September 2009 03:21 An: David Rastall; howard posner Cc: Lutelist Betreff: [LUTE] Re: ET FunFest Sliding in and out requires THE box, which is ET. Try sliding around MT, and you'd really start believing Tony Rooley.... RT ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Rastall" <[email protected]> To: "howard posner" <[email protected]> Cc: "Lutelist" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 9:14 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: ET FunFest > On Sep 25, 2009, at 8:36 PM, howard posner wrote: > >> The odd thing about that assumption is that we now live in era in >> which everyone in the West is taught a tuning system in which >> intonation is never perfect but never weird, and yet the music most >> people listen to departs from that system constantly, usually to >> achieve something outside the box. Singers slide in and out of the >> ET norm (deliberately in the case of Sinatra or Freddie Mercury, >> maybe accidentally in the case of Mick Jagger and Jim Morrison) and >> guitarists pull notes all over their their ET-fretted instruments. >> Gregor Piatigorsky once complained "Someone sent me some Beatles >> albums and I found that they didn't sing in tune." There were >> millions of other listeners who didn't seem to mind. >> >> I don't know if Arto has really disproved that the pyramids exist, >> but I think you have proved the non-existence of Jimi Hendrix and >> B.B. King. > > Yeah, well, on the subject of pop music Piatigorsky was full of it! > Howard's right: sliding in and out of the box is where it's at. Or > maybe GP would have preferred "Hey Jude" sung as though it were > Nessun dorma! > > D > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
