> Or we could change to a new system that doesn't
> use twelve tones, thus opening up an entirely
> new playing field.

I've always wondered why there aren't any notes between the notes we have already (such as between A and A sharp, for example). I don't think it would be that hard to make an instrument that could play those. We'd have to modify our current musical notation system, though.

-eric sleator
Fri 22 Jun A.D. 2001