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I have an experimental musical instrument that I want to make and perhaps to
market one day.

I will mention two of them here, and I need someone with more acoustics
knowledge than this man has to help me make them.

The first musical instrument, which is, indeed, very experimental, is the
"CROSS WIRES", and it essentially, is a keyboard type system, which can be
used to raise and depress wires.

The wires themselves are plucked with the hand.

Essentially, this makes up two perpendicular systems of interlinking wires,
and it is what happens when they CROSS that is the interesting part.

What I needed to know, is, from any of you guitarists, what wire grades,
makes, lengths, and the like that I would have to have to make a 19 ET system.

Another invention that I had was the "bong-flute", which is essentially a
bubble making system, which can be used to smoke tobacco, and this applys a
really unusual timbre to a flute.

Of course, you'd have to adjust between using them for their respective
intended purposes.

I still think that the microtonal eggslicer was pretty cool, though.

:o)

----Sarn.

Sarn Richard Ursell wrote:
>
> I have an experimental musical instrument that I want to make and perhaps to
> market one day.
>
> I will mention two of them here, and I need someone with more acoustics
> knowledge than this man has to help me make them.
>
> The first musical instrument, which is, indeed, very experimental, is the
> "CROSS WIRES", and it essentially, is a keyboard type system, which can be
> used to raise and depress wires.
>
> The wires themselves are plucked with the hand.
>
> Essentially, this makes up two perpendicular systems of interlinking wires,
> and it is what happens when they CROSS that is the interesting part.
>
> What I needed to know, is, from any of you guitarists, what wire grades,
> makes, lengths, and the like that I would have to have to make a 19 ET system.

It depends on how long the string is.

Look at the harp of a piano. See how the lower strings are long
and the higher strings are short?

Check out Partchs Harmonic canon. Notice how the adjustable bridges
change string length.

I hope my ramblings are some help.

db

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