some instruments

I took some digital photos of some of my microtonal
instruments:
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/microinstrument.html
The quality is kind of crummy, but you can tell what is
happening. They are either 19, 34 or fretless.
Some of my more regular and some humorous instruments are
here:
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/instruments.html

--
John Starrett
"We have nothing to fear but the scary stuff."
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/microtone.html

John,

Hello!

This is the most amazing collection of guitars and such! Do you mind
if I drop by to jam sometime? It's only a 28 hour drive.

I'm guessing that since vegetables do not have a limbic system, they
probably aren't feeling "pain" as we know it, when they become
members of the Vegephone instrument. But do you think they may
perhaps be a little uncomfortable? Looks like you've got four note
polyphony on this instrument. I noticed that with the Medieval tuning
machines, one could possibly fine tune some interesting silent
interval screams out of this arrangement (this is a riot!!!).

And the Lemonica; I wouldn't worry about the Citrus Rights groups - I
think these little fellers are too far gone to be of much concern.

This helps me to better understand "Citified Notions" - very funny
(love this tune, as my guests have, that I've played it for)! A
microtonalist after my own heart!

Still smiling,

Jacky Ligon

--- In tuning@egroups.com, John Starrett <jstarret@c...> wrote:
> I took some digital photos of some of my microtonal
> instruments:
> http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/microinstrument.html
> The quality is kind of crummy, but you can tell what is
> happening. They are either 19, 34 or fretless.
> Some of my more regular and some humorous instruments are
> here:
> http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/instruments.html
>
> --
> John Starrett
> "We have nothing to fear but the scary stuff."
> http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/microtone.html

on 1/9/01 3:51 PM, tuning@egroups.com at tuning@egroups.com wrote:

> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 22:03:26 -0700
> From: John Starrett <jstarret@carbon.cudenver.edu>
> Subject: some instruments
>
> I took some digital photos of some of my microtonal
> instruments:
> http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/microinstrument.html
> The quality is kind of crummy, but you can tell what is
> happening. They are either 19, 34 or fretless.
> Some of my more regular and some humorous instruments are
> here:
> http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/instruments.html

John,

Cool beans (as the saying goes). I particularly enjoyed seeing the
lemonphone (gotta watch out for sour notes) and vegephone. But are they
truly JI? :-). Futhermore, I sure do hope you're using organic,
non-genetically modified fruits and veggies for these. All the best,

Seth

--
Seth Austen

http://www.sethausten.com
email; seth@sethausten.com

"Music is far, far older than our species. It is tens of millions of years
old, and the fact that animals as wildly divergent as whales, humans and
birds come out with similar laws for what they compose suggests to me that
there are a finite number of musical sounds that will entertain the
vertebrate brain."

Roger Payne, president of Ocean Alliance