Arabic keyboards

I saw this while surfing USENET. The cost is high, but the
timbres and tuning may be interesting....

Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 02:07:38 GMT
From: George Kishek
Newsgroups: rec.music.arabic
Subject: New prices on Arabic Keyboards

I have been authorized to offer a special promotion by GeneralMusic on
their line of Arabic/Oriental keyboards. The following keyboards have
a built-in Arabic scale with all the Arabic sounds such as the Aoud
and the Kanoun.

CD1 Keyboard $699
WS1D Keyboard $1,599

The following keyboard can be upgraded with additional memory and
sounds installed in it to handle the Arabic Scale
WK4 + Oriental Kit + Arabic Scale converter $2,699
WK4 Powerstation + Oriental Kit + Arabic Scale converter $3,099

For more information on these keyboards visit:

http://www.generalmusic.com/

I can be reached via email or through my toll free number: 1 888
727-2242 (1 888 7ARABIC)

Thanks,
George Kishek
George@kishek.com

--John

>The controversy is over the concept of the undertone series _as an
>acoustical phenomenon_ -- and this is something that, as Max Meyer
>pointed out clearly, cannot exist.

I should point out a couple of exceptions. In overblown winds, the
fundamental can softly sound and affect the timbre. Likewise in string
harmonics (flageolet tones).


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>>The controversy is over the concept of the undertone series _as an
>>acoustical phenomenon_ -- and this is something that, as Max Meyer
>>pointed out clearly, cannot exist.

>I should point out a couple of exceptions. In overblown winds, the
>fundamental can softly sound and affect the timbre. Likewise in string
>harmonics (flageolet tones).

These are not examples of undertone series but of overtone series where
a note other than the fundamental functions as the pitch due to the
relative amplitutes of the partials. The waveform in these cases is
periodic, having a frequency equal to that of the true fundamental, and
therefore only integer multiples of that fundamental are present in the
spectrum. At best, the tone can be said to have one "undertone", but
nothing like an "undertone series".