RE: [tuning] Digest Number 3443

Daniel,

Yeah, looks like they know what they're doing! Why don't you
email Jimmy Gordon there; he's the one who has "experimented
with different tunings" and offers to create "alternate tunings".

Keep us posted?

Regards,
Yahya

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 05:15:07 -0600
From: "Daniel A. Wier"
Subject: Re: RE: My dream harmonica

From: "Yahya Abdal-Aziz":

> Since the harmonica uses vibrating metal reeds, and the pitch of
> each depends mostly on its length, would it be hard to modify a
> standard instrument by cutting and filing off the ends of some
> reeds?

Yeah, but that would raise the pitch of the reeds; I'm wanting to lower the
pitch of some, and redistribute them as well. (A conventional harmonica
repeats the octave every four holes; mine every three.)

This website looks promising: http://www.customharmonicas.com/. They do
experimental instruments; possibly including microtonal. Except they don't
show any pictures of instruments or anything.

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