> At 09:12 AM 1/7/2005, Timothy Larkin wrote:
>
> >There is a limit ... on how many different notes
> (that is, pitches with
> >musical significance) an octave can have. "Quarter
> tones appear to be
> >about the limit.
> This seems to assume that those twenty-four pitches
> are equidistant.
Hmm, that makes sense Karl. I've been taught 3 pitches
for u, all in different contexts within honkyoku, and
none of which, apparently, correspond to the
equivelant western pitch of that approximate note. And
they all are recognizably different. But
interestingly, they are all in different contexts, so
in each context there still remains I guess 12 notes
in the octave. And, they are all described by the same
written form - u.
Are there any pieces (other than modern stuff) in the
repetoire which actually employ more than 12?
Justin.
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