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AW.: RE: alternative tuning (was: microtonal) hardware

🔗DWolf77309@xx.xxx

12/1/1999 12:47:55 PM

1972 trombone and recorders
1976 copy of Partch's Guitar II
1977 learned harpsichord tuning from D. Leedy, first retuned the family
upright and a Thomas electric organ
1977 19-, and 22-tone guitars
1978 copy of Partch's surrogate kithara
1979 first played Sundanese gamelan, composed for Lou Harrison and William
Colvig's _Gamelan Si Betty.
1980-3 electronic music studio, UCSC
1980 tubulong, just array, setup at 17, 22, and 29 tones
1983 crosscut saw, retuned positiv organ

At present, in my studio in Frankfurt, are the following:

The above-mentioned tubulong
a fretless five-string banjo
an Hawaiian guitar
a packed-away TX81Z
several packed-away function generators
Rayna Synth-in-a-Box double precision with low pass filter driven by an Atari
ST using the Forth music language FORMULA
a PC with a generic soundcard and midi keyboard, most often using AcidWAV and
WAVMaker
a homemade gamelan selonding (presently disassembled)
and
a central Javanese gamelan wayangan (slendro) plus extra bonang, demung,
pelog gender, and a mbira tuned to match the gamelan.
an old eb clarinet
and a pile of pernambuco waiting to be marimba-fied