Tennis today was brilliant fun, except for the rain. the funny thing was that i dreamt the day before that by the time it got to 4.00 it was going to rain, and true enough, it did. am i some sort of soothsayer or something? haha. anyway it rained here and there after half an hour and we couldn't really get to play: the rain stopped later on and we played for a bit more, we managed to get through two doubles sets, before it started raining again. sigh. never mind, i won all of them 6-0, 6-0, but of course, it'll be a much more different story if daryl were there. PLyaed squash and that was fun too. dinner was great. had rack of lamb spiced with mint sauce, while the rest had fillet, some seafood, pie, chicken, and sausages...and some lovely cocktails...i had a sex-on-the-beach with kahlua, others had zombie, some had island on the sun and what not...was quite fun and a nice way to end the week. thanks to jerald, hope there'll be more of that, would be seriously cool.

but today i was fishing out my KORG tuner manual and i found out something seriously cool...a new way to tune your guitar, so you can enjoy the benefits of just intonation instead of equal temparement, which is, seriously, the most ugly, stupid, tuning system there ever is. to take 2 cents off every 5th to make the circle complete is the most stupid thing you could ever do, since chords, harmony, doesn't ever sound like harmony any more. there isn't that shimmer, that resonance, that blend. something's just not right. bah. i think the tuning was much better last time, when i actually tuned the guitar to a chord, for instance G major--i didn't have a tuner then--and then i would sorta fiddle the notes in the chord until it was almost just-intonated, instead of it being equal temparemented--of course that chord sounded damn good while the rest were like crap. of course then you couldn't play any song, right? coz while G was perfectly just-intonated, C was rubbish, and so was D. no wonder it didn't work!
but now, i just realised...just tune it to E, and then barre! and you have the perfect solution. the KORG tuner gives you the position for a pure major 3rd or pure minor 3rd, so all one has to do is to retune some of the strings. E, no need, it's the root. for A, tune it up to the indicated mark, since it'll form B, the 5th, which has to be raised. for D, leave it. for G, tune it down, since itll form the third. for B, tune it up to the indicated, and for E, leave it alone. So you get a really nice chord for all the majors, and the minors dont' sound too bad as well: you have to barre, of course.

The truth is, we've been fed with equal temparement for so long, we've lost the knowledge of the beauty that music actually is. classical music, especially acapella, with the blend of voices, is really music in its purest form, where music simply blends and the harmonic overtones are fed nicely and blend in nicely and you can hear the shimmer of the overtones. especially during ac choir concert, my goodness, the whole auditorium was swelling with the sound of overtones. and only in that form can songs be truly appreciated. sigh. we should go back. js bach was wrong.