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Questions? Comments? Just ask! Li’l Miss’ Scale Oven is now being productively used worldwide by professional composers to make use of non-western tunings in hip-hop, ambient, world, folk, experimental music and film scores. Just write me and I can help you evaluate your situation — tell me what instruments, software and platform you use and I’ll let you know if LMSO would be a sensible investment for you. LMSO is available for the Macintosh only. It runs great on OS X versions 10.3 through 10.6.

I always like to hear about people’s interests and experiences with different tunings. Let me know if you compose or perform, or just listen, what music software you use, and what your musical goals are.

Any feedback about things you enjoyed or hated or were surprised by on the web site, let me know! There’s a lot of wild stuff in there if you look around for it.

We appreciate you; Thanks for stopping by!

— X. J. Scott

Please note: We have a great reputation for the ability to retune just about anything and for providing great customer service. Because of this, many people have recommended that their friends contact us for all sorts of detailed technical help. This willingness to help has been abused somewhat. Detailed technical support is for customers only. You should contact the provider of your hardware and software if you need specific technical assistance with it if you are not one of our customers. Private tutoring and consultation for non-customers is sometimes available at hourly rates. Thanks for understanding. If you would like to talk about composition, scale structures, or music that’s not a problem and is welcome whether or not you are a customer.

Prices

Important Note: OS X 10.7 Lion is not currently compatible with LMSO. OS X versions 10.3 through 10.6 Snow Leopard work fine with LMSO. A Lion compatible version is under development but the release date is not determined. We apologize for the inconvenience.

ProductDescription PriceShipping
Li’l Miss’ Scale Oven (LMSO) Pro Edition Tuning Software for OS X $119 free
LMSO Project Edition Budget Edition of LMSO for OS X $79 free
IntervalCalc Music Calculator for OS 8.6 - OS X $15 [1] free
LMSO Customer Support Email support included -
Private Tutoring Instruction for non-customers; as available $75/hr -
Engineering Consulting C/C++/other Design & Development $190/hr -
Zhxrghaenian Night Melodies (ZNM) Music CD out of print
This is Not For Realsies (TNFR) Music CD out of print

Ordering by Check or Money Order — from Red Barn Goat Farm

When ordering, please make a check or money order payable in U.S. funds to Red Barn Goat Farm:

Red Barn Goat Farm
140 Temple Road
Rogersville, Tennessee 37857

Shipping

For LMSO, standard shipping by air is generally free worldwide, including all parts of the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Finland, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway, India, Japan, New Zealand and Australia.

Tax

When ordering from Red Barn Goat Farm for shipment to Tennessee, please add sales tax of 9.75% to the order.

Ordering by Credit Card and Paypal — from Kagi

Although we are not set up to handle credit card orders directly, several of our products, including LMSO, may be purchased from the Kagi Store which accepts domestic and international credit cards, and also paypal:

Buy from the Kagi Store

 

Notes

Artware offer for IntervalCalc

1IntervalCalc costs $15. Alternatively, you may acquire IntervalCalc as artware. Artware means you have to send us (through the regular postal mail) something artistic you yourself made in order to get it. Send it to the above address for Red Barn Goat Farm. Be sure to include your email address.

Priority Shipping Notes

2International Priority shipping is extremely expensive and not recommended. These shipments tend to attract more import attention and carriers require more paperwork since everything needs to be in perfect order. Researching and arranging the proper paperwork can sometimes take weeks by which time it would have long ago arrived via normal shipping. Payment (usually it costs around $100 or more) must be paid in advance and is completely non-refundable.

Domestic Priority Mail shipping is sometimes available for shipments to the 48 contiguous US states for $24 extra. This covers the cost of shipping plus the couple hours it takes to drive it to the post office and stand in line. Priority arrives one day earlier than it would have otherwise. It is said to arrive in 2-3 days rather than 3-5 days starting the weekday after it is mailed, but there is no guarantee, and in practice it means it takes one day less. Since we have to go to the post office, which we don’t do every day, sometimes this means that we will ship the Priority package a few days after it would have gone out normally (which is usually within 3 days), eliminating the time advantage. There are no guarantees as to date of arrival and no refunds of any kind for Priority shipping whether or not it arrives when expected. In the old days shipments could take 6-9 months and arrived by Clipper ship, assuming it wasn’t lost rounding Cape Horn. 130 years ago pianos cost a small fortune, much due to shipping costs from Europe or Chicago. 130 years ago, my grandmother’s second cousin Erastus Caswell Jr. became the president of the Hemme & Long piano company which was the first piano company on the west coast, able to sell good pianos at a lower cost due to manufacturing in San Francisco and delivery by horse drawn wagon rather than transcontinental steam locomotive or clipper ship as before. Current delivery is much faster than this due to the low cost of petroleum. We can arrange partial delivery by animal if needed though, this may add a day though for us to strap the package to a cat, goat, dog, chicken or horse and take a photo. Er, yes, we have done this and it’s still less trouble than expedited mail and quite a bit more fun and memorable.

We do not offer overnight delivery because it is not possible to guarantee we can prepare a shipment and get to the post office in time and usually we can not do so. UPS and FedEx are simply not available since we don’t have pickup.

Normal shipment is usually prompt and is included at no extra charge, we recommend everyone use that instead and it’s often faster anyway.

Other Versions

Sorry, but we do not have PC/Windows versions of LMSO or IntervalCalc. PC users may wish to check out Fractal Tune Smithy, a microtonal application for Windows by Robert Inventor.

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