Looking for a 96-tet harp

Hello,
sorry first of all for hiding such a long time. Very busy performing,
teaching... I just come back from a Japan tour, during which we played a
new piece by Laurent Martin, French composer, for two quarter tone fretted
guitars and Japanese female traditional singer. Her natural microtonal
fluctuations did fit the quarter tone harmony in a most wonderful way. The
piece had great success with the audience in eight big cities all over
Japan. For me it was the occasion to add another set of twelve frets to my
guitar with movable frets. This gives interesting possibilities since from
now on I can cover any ET from 0 up to 24 as far as straight fret lines are
concerned and still have the possibility to set each fret individually for
each string. I'm looking forward studying some more 19-tet and explore the
22-tet.

I have a question: in February 2003 I'll participate in two concerts in
Amsterdam with the Nieuw Ensemble. On the program two pieces by Carrillo:
his well known Prelude to Colon and another short piece for the same singer
and instruments, called I Think of You, for which I realised a conventional
score from Carrillo's number notation. So we're looking for the 96-tet harp.
Can anyone give a suggestion how to find such an instrument within the
borders of Europe? 97 metal strings, going from C to C' (one octave higher)
in 1/16th tone steps. That's *all* we need. Is there perhaps an electronic
solution? Thanks for any help which might lead to a solution.

Wim Hoogewerf

Hi Wim,

I do know that Skip has Buzz Kimball's instrument and can send it for the
concert. I gave Skip LaPlante the telephone number in France for Rudiger's
microtonal harp (which can play the piece).

E-mail me privately if you have trouble getting in touch with Skip.

best, Johnny Reinhard

Wim Hoogewerf wrote:

> Hello,
> sorry first of all for hiding such a long time. Very busy performing,
> teaching... I just come back from a Japan tour, during which we
> played a new piece by Laurent Martin, French composer, for two quarter
> tone fretted guitars and Japanese female traditional singer. Her
> natural microtonal fluctuations did fit the quarter tone harmony in a
> most wonderful way. The piece had great success with the audience in
> eight big cities all over Japan. For me it was the occasion to add
> another set of twelve frets to my guitar with movable frets. This
> gives interesting possibilities since from now on I can cover any ET
> from 0 up to 24 as far as straight fret lines are concerned and still
> have the possibility to set each fret individually for each string.
> I'm looking forward studying some more 19-tet and explore the 22-tet.

Look out for some new 22-tet guitar pieces in the New Year.

Kind Regards
a.m.

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