TUNING digest 1230

Hello Patrick,

You recently (6 Nov.) wrote:

>`Alternative Tuning Projects' are preparing a pilot study regarding
>establishing a Centre in the UK to co-ordinate the design and
>manufacture of new instruments for ATS.

>At this stage, I would greatly appreciate any help in bringing my
>attention to existing instruments which fall into the category above,
>or to relevant work in instrument design and building.

I've been playing the Japanese koto for over 30 years and can heartily and
warmly recommend it for use in a variety of tuning systems. It has 13
strings, made from an artificial silk, of great carrying power, is capable
of a variety of "bent" notes and graces, and can be retuned in medias res.
There is a 16 string version, and a 20 string version, and any number of
semi-custom versions. If you get a version up in the 20+ string range you
can set it up as two instruments with different tuning systems.

The Chinese make a correlative instrument with 23-25 strings of wire which
you can tune in a variety of systems of your own devising; its name is Jeng
(pronounced "juhng").

Of course, the classical Chinese Gu Qin is bridgeless and fretless and can
be played in any interval system the artist can devise and handle. It is a
most expressive instrument in terms of its "bent note" graces. It uses
"artificial silk" strings.

The nice thing about these instruments is that they are all available in
modern, contemporary, pieces and therefore are affordable.

Anybody who has experience playing a harp or an Appalachian mountain
dulcimer should be capable of learning to play one or more of these
instruments.

Kent Nilsson


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>>>>>>styled "Chaos, Fractals, Power Laws' has been mentioned.
>>>>CFPL is a truly great book, and mentions the Pierce/Bohlen scale.
>>> Interesting... In what regard does it mention Pierce-Bohlen?
>>Equal-tempered scales are examples of geometric series, which are
>>self-similar. 12-tet (mistakenly attributed to Bach) is discussed in terms of
>>several "lucky" number-theoretic near-coincidences, such as 3^12 ~= 2^19 and
>>5^3 ~= 2^7.

Ah. So then mostly from the perspective of examples of geometric
series, and self-similarity. That seems reasonable I suppose. I couldn't
think right off of any way Pierce-Bohlen could illustrate Chaos or
Fractals.


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Date: November 8, 1997
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