bar timbres and scales

From: "Darren Burgess" <dburgess@acceleration.net>
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>> I don't think any of these point to the solution to your problem.
>> It sounds to me like you're in uncharted, and very interesting,
>> territory in trying to devise a JI tuning for bars with inharmonic
>> partials.

>That is an interesting idea -- devising the tuning based on the available
>partials of an inharmonic bar. My approach has been to find a way to tune
>the partials to small number ratios in the series.

I've found two interesting uses of bar-timbre scales. First, you can
use the dissonance curve for the bar spectrum directly - this gives you
a non-octave based scale that is quite distinct sounding.
The other idea is to combine the bar-timbre with a harmonic timbre
(as occurs for instance in the gender, vibes, and other xylophone-like
instruments when played along with harmonic instruments).
As I show in appendix I of TTSS, this combination gives a scale
very close to a 7-tet scale.

I first discovered this when studying the Thai classical music,
which is in (approximately) and is played on xylophone-like
instruments called the renat.