Orthotonophonium

I read this name in an old tuning digest (Manuel Op de Coul, "von
Oettingen". 10.94-1), it is a special pump organ.

http://www.music-in-cubes.de/launcher/orthotonophonium/

"Das Orthotonophonium des Physiker Arthur von Oettingen (1836-1920),
eine Art Harmonium, erlaubt es, von fast jedem Ton aus reine Terzen,
Quarten, Quinten und Oktaven zu spielen. Deswegen gibt es nicht zwölf,
sondern 53 Stufen innerhalb der Oktave."

(The Orthotonophonium physicist Arthur von Oettingen (1836-1920), a
kind harmonium, permits it, to play from nearly each clay/tone pure
thirds, quarten, quinten and oktaven. Therefore there are not twelve,
but 53 stages within the oktave.)

There is a postcard showing the keys more closely,
Orthotonophonium (F 91); Postkarte; 5602. Orthotonophonium (System
Arthur von Oettingen) - Detail der Tastatur; Schiedmayer, Stuttgart,
1914 (0.50 EUR)

http://www.sim.spk-berlin.de/deutsch/shop_en/shopsearch.php

Clark

This instrument is in the Music Instrument Museum in Berlin and still
plays well. Wolfgang von Schweinitz (a very good microtonal composer
BTW) played a realization of the _Tristan Vorspiel_ on the instrument
a few years ago. The virtuosity and musicality of the performance was
abundantly clear, although any Wagner rendered all in one timbre is
somewhat impoverished (and I have a personal preference for a septimal
- and often subharmonic - interpretation of the _Vorspiel_).

Daniel Wolf

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "threesixesinarow"
<CACCOLA@N...> wrote:
>
> I read this name in an old tuning digest (Manuel Op de Coul, "von
> Oettingen". 10.94-1), it is a special pump organ.
>
> http://www.music-in-cubes.de/launcher/orthotonophonium/
>
> "Das Orth

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "danieljameswolf" <djwolf@s...>
wrote:

> The virtuosity and musicality of the performance was
> abundantly clear, although any Wagner rendered all in one timbre is
> somewhat impoverished (and I have a personal preference for a septimal
> - and often subharmonic - interpretation of the _Vorspiel_).

An example of which is found here:

http://66.98.148.43/~xenharmo/wagmean.htm