Exobiomicrotones

Good to hear about your interesting (3+4) Black and 9 White keyboard, Kraig.

I thought of using a key board making the next higher Fibocinni numbers as
the standard Western Keyboard, ie:
12 Whites, and (3+5) Blacks.

Also, a quarter note keyboard with red "in between keys", much like "ALF",
the cute Malmacian critter who had his own sit-com says he played.

I have often woundered, is there an exo-biology out there in a distant
planet who's most popular tonal system is non-12ET, non-JI?

I just hope I'm still alive to see us contact them.

Sarn.

E-Mail:thcdelta@pop.ihug.co.nz

On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:10:39 +1300, Sarn Richard Ursell
<thcdelta@pop.ihug.co.nz> wrote:

>I have often woundered, is there an exo-biology out there in a distant
>planet who's most popular tonal system is non-12ET, non-JI?

Some of my scales were developed specifically for fictional alien cultures.
For instance, I have a 19-note scale used by furry alien people called
Nikta, which goes like this (frequencies in Hz):

469 489 507 524 547 565 586 612 627 654 681 702 731 757 782 819 842 875 912

It's a sort of "well-tempered" compromise scale similar to 19-tet, but with
a few good approximations to 7/4 intervals as a bonus.