tuneable sanza

this
is a video by a friend who designed a tunable
sanza/likembe/kalimba/mbira/thumb piano. thought some of the
practitioners on this list would enjoy the possibilities! he is making
making them to order fyi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcuAk5UY5g8

this
is a video by a friend who designed a tunable
sanza/likembe/kalimba/mbira/thumb piano. thought some of the
practitioners on this list would enjoy the possibilities! he is making
making them to order fyi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcuAk5UY5g8
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Nathaniel wrote:

>this
>is a video by a friend who designed a tunable
>sanza/likembe/kalimba/mbira/thumb piano. thought some of the
>practitioners on this list would enjoy the possibilities! he is making
>making them to order fyi.
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcuAk5UY5g8
>
>this
>is a video by a friend who designed a tunable
>sanza/likembe/kalimba/mbira/thumb piano. thought some of the
>practitioners on this list would enjoy the possibilities! he is making
>making them to order fyi.
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcuAk5UY5g8

Was this meant to be the same video as above? Anyway, sounds
like that guy who won that MacArthur grant. You know him?

-Carl

This is superb! For some time I have wanted live-retunable s/l/k/tp's, instead of having to
take a screwdriver to it all the time. The foot pedal mechanism is great, and it could
develop into some kind of bike-style-pedal situation and that might be ideal.

What I still want is an entire class of instruments with easily retunable pitches. For this
instrument, maybe a rack&pinion from below. For a portative organ or panpipe, slideable
fixed pitches would be trivial but I haven't really seen it. I'm waiting also for this sort of
thing to be attempted on free reeds, which are really just tines driven by air (which leads to
other constraints). It would take a clever person to figure out how to make a woodwind
with moveable fingerholes though :)

Jacob

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Nathaniel Braddock <nbraddo@...> wrote:
>
> this
> is a video by a friend who designed a tunable
> sanza/likembe/kalimba/mbira/thumb piano. thought some of the
> practitioners on this list would enjoy the possibilities! he is making
> making them to order fyi.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcuAk5UY5g8

Da Vinci had a design for woodwind to be as easily fingered as a violin.
There is allot to be said for variable pitch instruments and the orchestra has plenty of those. A good player can play what ever pitch you give them as Johnny's work in NY shows. Jim French showed up at my house with a harmonic flute, one with no holes and he was playing along in the eikosany, so it is the player at least as much as the instrument.

I have seem Square Organ Pipes with a plunger to play it like a trombone with a wire that hung over the body where one could put marks to designate the ratios. metal bars can be sunk in water as Emil Richard has in his studio.

But new instruments don't have the traditional disposition toward the former 12et tuning timbrewise so i understand. I must admit i have taken the other path of having instruments that produce pitches down into the 1/10 of a cent range thinking that if i can play it for variable pitched instruments then they have something to match. Which i guess is what Partch tried to do with string instruments although they are way to soft to be practical.

Most new instruments really aren't new. most are based or modification of existing ones

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Jacob wrote:
>
> This is superb! For some time I have wanted live-retunable s/l/k/tp's, > instead of having to
> take a screwdriver to it all the time. The foot pedal mechanism is > great, and it could
> develop into some kind of bike-style-pedal situation and that might be > ideal.
>
> What I still want is an entire class of instruments with easily > retunable pitches. For this
> instrument, maybe a rack&pinion from below. For a portative organ or > panpipe, slideable
> fixed pitches would be trivial but I haven't really seen it. I'm > waiting also for this sort of
> thing to be attempted on free reeds, which are really just tines > driven by air (which leads to
> other constraints). It would take a clever person to figure out how to > make a woodwind
> with moveable fingerholes though :)
>
> Jacob
>
> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:MakeMicroMusic%40yahoogroups.com>, Nathaniel Braddock > <nbraddo@...> wrote:
> >
> > this
> > is a video by a friend who designed a tunable
> > sanza/likembe/kalimba/mbira/thumb piano. thought some of the
> > practitioners on this list would enjoy the possibilities! he is making
> > making them to order fyi.
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcuAk5UY5g8 > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcuAk5UY5g8>
>
>