Micrtonal wind instruments

Martin Vogel has constructed "enharmonic" jazz and concert trumpets
as well as tubas and french horns for playing in JI. For details,
pictures and fingering charts, see his books, "Die Zukunft der Musik,"
and "On the Relations of Tone," the English translation of his "Die Lehre
von dem Tonbeziehungen." All three are in the ORPHEUS series of
monographs, which he edits and many libraries carry. Most of the volumes
are only in German, however.

Mandelbaum references an article by Sigmund Stein, "Quarter-Tone Data"
in the Pro-Musica Quarterly of March 1925. This article mentions
a quarter-tone trumpet built in Odessa, Russia in the 19th century and
quarter-tone clarinets.

Haba's used quarter-tone trumpets and clarinets in his 1/4-tone opera
"Die Mutter" in the 1920's. (from Mandelbaum's dissertation, p.141).
A modern performance of this work has been recorded by Supraphone and
may still be available.

A well-known American jazz musician (Don Ellis?) plays a quarter-tone
trumpet.

I don't know if Wyschnegradsky used quarter-tone wind instruments,
but either Franck Jedrzejewski or the people at Montreal should know.
A fourth valve is necessary, but apparently the the modifications are
not too complex.

--John


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Since he referenced the list and the xenharmonic community in general. I
suspect that Pat intended this to head off to the list rather than just me.
(It's a mistake I've made at least twice that I can recall.)

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To: Gary Morrison, 71670,2576
Date: 2 Sep 1996 , 12:34 PM

RE: Re: The magnificent seventh...

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At 11:56 01/09/96 EDT, you wrote:
>> The draw chord of the standard diatonic harmonica is traditionally tuned
>> 4/5/6/7
>
> Oooo. I didn't know that.
>
>

Seeing as a large percentage of the tunings list goes right over my head,
I'm never too sure how relevant and/or interesting my opinions and
experiences are!

However, seeing that in terms of units sold, the harmonica is the most
popular instrument ever manufactured (Hohner made their *billionth*
harmonica a few years back), it must have had some effect on the ears of the
many people who have encountered it. I think it is threfore of interest to
the xenharmonic community that the traditional tuning of the harmonica gives
a theoretical scale of:

8/9 4/5 16/21 2/3 16/27 8/15 1/2

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