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apologies and glasses.

🔗Glen Peterson <Glen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx>

9/27/1999 8:00:06 PM

>[Glen] Someone should slap you... etc.

>[Paul] I apologize... etc.

I apologize too. I should have mailed that to you personally Paul, and not
made a scene in front of the whole list! I was incredibly tired and not
thinking straight.

>[Paul] are all your pitches really between 1/1 and 2/1?

Yes. I had a second octave but it was incomplete. Glasses would break,
clerks would throw me out of glass stores, yard sales are unpredictable,
nice glasses cost $10-30 a piece, etc. It was the most high maintenance
instrument I ever played! I suppose it was worth it though, as I am buying
glasses again for another one: the Bathtub model!

> I will try these chords myself on the synth and get back to you.

Cool! Enjoy!

>Also, can you tell me what intervals, if any, you find dissonant on your
glass organ?

Oh my. As with most tuning systems, most random chords were dissonant.
Clusters were dissonant, and I used to like clashing an otonal chord with a
utonal chord that shared a common note. A minimally beating dissonance as I
remember. It's been a while.

I just found a tape of my organ. I'm updating my site with pictures of the
staggered and bent fret guitar necks in a few days, I'll try to get some
glass organ sound samples up then too.

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Glen Peterson
30 Elm Street North Andover, MA 01845
(978) 975-1527
http://www.OrganicDesign.org/Glen/Instruments