Re: [Worship] history and future of music etc.

[Rob K <rakemp@charter.net>]

I have a software plug in for my recording software called "Auto Tune" 
which automatically corrects the pitch of what is recorded.   In 
addition to the modern equal tempered scale, which is used for tuning 
pianos, it lists the following scales:  Ling Lun, Scholars Lute, Greek 
Diatonic, Greek Chromatic, Greek Enharmonic, Pythagorean, Just, 
Meantone, Werkmeister III, Valotti and Young, Barnes-Bach,

There are also several "ethnic scales."  Indian, Selendro, Pelog, Arabic 
1 and Arabic 2.
  The ethnic scales are, of course, for doing ethnic music.  

The western scale is a compromise so that a piano can be played with 
different key signatures and sound the same in each one.  If you tune 
your piano with one of the other scales, it will sound "better" though 
beauty is in the ear of the beholder, but it will only sound better in 
one key signature and will sound pretty strange in other key signatures. 
 It's a little hard to stop in the middle of a piece and retune the 
piano because of a key change.

If I am recording something that is all in one key I prefer the Valotti 
and Young Scale.  It raises the third note of the scale up a little 
higher, which, I'm  am told, sounds better to "western" ears.  (Though 
technically, I am not a westerner).

Brother, this is a lot longer than I planned.   I guess I must be from 
Babylon!

In Christ,
Rob K
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Susan wrote:

>I seem to remember they were talking on the radio a week or two ago
>about the western musical scale not being the only one. I they used the
>example of a lady (Persian I think) who used this different scale. In
>other words she used notes that are not used in the standard western
>interpretation of the range of musical notes available to be strung
>together to make a tune. 
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