Penny Brilliant
Metrication has been brilliant. Could we have 2 new notes to make the octave into a dectave?
12 pennies in a shilling. 16 ounces in a pound. 3 feet in a yard.
Come-on you musicians – join the 21st century.
Sure we could. No reason why you couldn’t adopt a tuning of 10th roots of 2 instead of the 12th roots of 2 we have now. Of course, it would sound like crap.
Easley Blackwood wrote a whole set of studies for electronics using the equal temperaments from 13/8ve to 24. Some of the tunings are really nice; others he cleverly writes around to disguise their bad points.
“The Boat” – Clip 2 of 2
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