41-EDO computer keyboard instrument

Hey, has anyone ever noticied this before? This is fun!

http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/uses-math/music/41tone.com

It's a little program that turns your computer keyboard into
a 41-EDO keyboard instrument. The mapping is cleverly
arranged so that a row of keys emulates the 12-tone scale
and the rows under it raise the pitches by one 41-EDO degree:

40 0 3 7 10 14 17 21 24 27 31 34 38 41
1 4 8 11 15 18 22 25 28 32 35 39
2 5 9 12 16 19 23 26 29 33 36 [40]
x 6 x 13 x 20 x x 30 [x] 37

where "40" is mapped to the "~" key, "0" to the "1" key,
"1" to the "Q" key, etc. "x" means that that key doesn't
do anything, and can be used to simply turn off the sound.
SHIFT makes the note an "8ve" higher. Hitting SPACE twice
exits the program.

The Pascal source code is here:
http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/uses-math/music/41tone.pas

and also explains how it looks if you have a Dvorak keyboard.

With a little tweaking, this could easily be transformed
into the 41-tone MIRACLE tuning. (How come we never found
a card game to name that one after?)

Enjoy!

-monz

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--- In tuning@y..., "monz" <joemonz@y...> wrote:

> With a little tweaking, this could easily be transformed
> into the 41-tone MIRACLE tuning. (How come we never found
> a card game to name that one after?)

Mexican Poker is a card game played with 41 cards:

http://home.earthlink.net/~clegg/studloco.htm

http://www.commercecasino.com/mexicanpoker.html

> From: paulerlich <paul@stretch-music.com>
> To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 6:18 AM
> Subject: [tuning] Re: 41-EDO computer keyboard instrument
>
>
> --- In tuning@y..., "monz" <joemonz@y...> wrote:
>
> > With a little tweaking, this could easily be transformed
> > into the 41-tone MIRACLE tuning. (How come we never found
> > a card game to name that one after?)
>
> Mexican Poker is a card game played with 41 cards:
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~clegg/studloco.htm
>
> http://www.commercecasino.com/mexicanpoker.html

Wow, I *love* "StudLoco" for a name!

-monz

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In-Reply-To: <00a301c19d1e$0fc47ec0$af48620c@dsl.att.net>
monz wrote:

> Wow, I *love* "StudLoco" for a name!

53 notes, there are plenty of options. But how about Miracle41? Do we
call it "The Mexican Scale" or "Poker" or what? Is there a Mexican word
for Poker?

Graham

--- In tuning@y..., graham@m... wrote:
> In-Reply-To: <00a301c19d1e$0fc47ec0$af48620c@d...>
> monz wrote:
>
> > Wow, I *love* "StudLoco" for a name!
>
> 53 notes, there are plenty of options. But how about Miracle41?
Do we
> call it "The Mexican Scale" or "Poker" or what? Is there a Mexican
word
> for Poker?
>
>
> Graham

Like Monz, I love StudLoco. Where did you get 53 from?

I'll ask Erv :)

graham@microtonal.co.uk wrote:

Is there a Mexican word

> for Poker?
>
>
>

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In-Reply-To: <a22and+d941@eGroups.com>
paulerlich wrote:

> Like Monz, I love StudLoco. Where did you get 53 from?

Sorry, I was misreading the second half of the page where it starts
talking about a 53 card pack. I thought StudLoco was a different game
with all 53 cards. But no, it is 41, so StudLoco it is!

Graham