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Digital Pianos, Microtonal Synthesis web site update

🔗John Loffink <jloffink@xxx.xxxx>

1/13/1999 6:08:40 PM

Some Yamaha digital pianos do have full keyboard scales, but the tuning is
still limited to +-100 cents per note. This doesn't seem much more useful
than the octave scales with the -64 +63 cent tuning. Check my website for
full details: http://freeweb.pdq.net/jloffink . You can download PDF files
of manuals for Yamaha's current synthesizer, portable keyboard and digital
piano line at: http://www.yamaha.co.uk/eurohome/library.htm .
Interestingly, the portable keyboard line has some of the greatest storage
possibilities for microtonal scales: up to 128 octave tuning scales stored
as part of the registration memories. Other trivia: Yamaha also has the
lowest priced all-in-one microtonal keyboard, the PSR-330 which lists for a
mere US $499.

I have also added tables of various microtonal scales (equal tempered, just
intonation, well tempered, world ) to my web site with tuning values in
cents, interval names, and deviations from closest just intervals.

John Loffink
jloffink@pdq.net
http://freeweb.pdq.net/jloffink
The Microtonal Synthesis Web Site