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Title: fascinating
Review: I read this quite a few years ago, and my memory is a little vague, but I can give you some idea what we it is. Harry Partch was a musical maverick who invented a forty-three-(or forty-something)-note scale (forty-three notes to the octave, that is) based on the eleventh partial (partial, not harmonic: Harry is fussy about the distinction). Here he explains his scale, the instruments he invented to play it, his aesthetic of "corporeality" (not "corpulence"--don't be confused), and rants and raves a bit. Fascinating. By the bye, some equally--or even more--fascinating musical ramifications of acoustical theory are to be found in PENTATONIC SCALES FOR THE JAZZ-ROCK KEYBOARDIST by Jeff Burns.
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