Scott Joplin's «Eugenia», Arranged for Harpsichord · Fragment, tuned into 34-edo

We present a fragment from Scott Joplin's Ragtime «Eugenia», played at the harpsichord, tuned into 34-edo, as 17-edo but with:
• B - F# - C# - G# lowered by 1/34 of an octave;
• Gb - Db - Ab - Eb - Bb - F - C raised by 1/34 of an octave;
• C left unchanged at measures 25, 26, 32, 33;
• G raised by 1/34 of an octave at measures 22, 30.
Soundfont is Harpsichord Zell.
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[@camtaylormusic]

I like the idea but the rhythm sounds a bit strange, it's got a subtle reverse swing going on. Straight would probably be preferable, but now wondering what an even more subtle regular swing would do to the sound...

[@ClaudiMeneghin]

Thank you 😀and yes indeed, if I can recall correctly, I used Lombard Swing here.
I used direct Swing in Maple Leaf Rag instead: th-cam.com/video/jDVXLrJh8C4/w-d-xo.html
Also, I'm projecting the whole «Eugenia» in multiple tunings... but this will take a little bit more. 🙂

[@camtaylormusic]

@@ClaudiMeneghin what is Lombard Swing? Didn't get any good hits when I searched it up. Is that a type of reverse swing (microbeats cut into sL instead of Ls paired divisions?)

[@ClaudiMeneghin]

@@camtaylormusic That's it 😀! I adapted to Swing the definition of «Lombard Rythm», which refers to a slightly different thing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_rhythm

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

Sounds pretty good except in a couple of places late in the excerpt -- typo in the conversion?

[@ClaudiMeneghin]

Maybe so... or maybe choice of the «lesser evil»... which points ? Thank you anyway 🙂

[@romeolz]

34edo doesn't temper out the syntonic comma so it's tough to convert pieces from 12edo into it

[@ClaudiMeneghin]

​@@romeolz That's correct: you need to resolve notes in multiple ways; this can be «programmed» via spreadsheets; yet, I still have to perfect my overall strategy in doing that🙂

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

@@romeolz Yes, the end result can be very clean, but you have to ind all the right places to drop a note by a syntonic comma (actually the 34EDO approximation thereof, which is inflated to over 1.5X actual size). So one could miss a spot or accidentally do it to one note over from where you should have. And even if you do everything right, the software might not do what you tell it to (I have heard an example of this in another TH-cam video -- the score looked right, but the note was off, because the software didn't do the commanded alteration, even though it had done so elsewhere).
When I get some time, I'm going to have to go back through and listen to this with stops and starts to note where something went wrong.

[@romeolz]

@@Lucius_Chiaraviglio for some situations there isn't one correct answer, how would you tune a maj69 chord?