What People Have Said

To see what the press is saying please see the Press Page.

On Harmonic Intonation:

"Even J.S. Bach had to put up with these limitations and the harmonic impurity they engender. I'm sure that he would be delighted to use electronic musical instruments if he were alive today. Digital synthesizers have sufficient precision and control to bring microtonality into more general use." Wendy Carlos, in the Forward to Tuning In, Microtonality in Electronic Music, Hal Leonard Books, 1988.

"...once you've heard what it sounds like to play absolutely in tune, there's no turning back." John Schneider, "Fine Tuning," Acoustic Guitar, May/June, 1994.

"The twelve equal tempered scale gives a sound too mechanical, artificial and limiting. It is not adequate for expressing the purity and complexity of religious experience. The wonderousness of the human mind is too great to be transferred into music only by 7 or 12 elements of tone steps in one octave. There are millions of steps of microtones, and none is to be thrown away, just like nothing is to be wasted in this world." Masayuki Koga, Shakuhachi master, The Japanese Bamboo Flute, 1989.

What Musicians Have Said About Justonic Tuning:

"The Justonic tuning is more mellow, because of the overtones, definitely." Paul Horn, Grammy award winning flutist.

"I rigorously tested every type of chord from C major to F#13 (b9, b5). . . all chords sound better in the Justonic system." Juno award winning jazz guitarist Oliver Gannon.

"I am delighted that you are working on an idea I have dreamt of for years ... one day somebody making a machine that can tune to any scale and play in real time." Fathi Saleh, composer, Cairo, Egypt, 1995.

Market Demand for Just Intonation:

"I'm passionately excited by the promise of any possible timbre, any possible tuning." Wendy Carlos, composer, Switched on Bach, Beauty in the Beast; from Computer Music Journal, 11 (1), 1986.

"Wean singers early from the piano. When the piano plays, the conductor cannot hear or listen acutely for problems of intonation... Perfect [intervals] that are in tune with the overtone series are not in tune with the piano; thus, proper vertical intonation cannot be achieved." Jameson Marvin, Director of Choral Activities, Harvard University, "Choral Singing, In Tune," Choral Journal, 32 (5), 1991.

"Sustained major thirds, which work perfectly well on an organ tuned to one of the unequal temperaments common in the seventeenth century, ... fight unmercifully on today's equally tempered instruments." Arthur Benade, Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics, Oxford University Press, 1976.

"Once you have heard the power and beauty of these alternative frettings, modern equal temperament seems a very poor substitute indeed." John Schneider, "Fine Tuning," Acoustic Guitar, May/June, 1994.

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