Re: what microtonal instruments do you play and/or own?

The very first intonation experiments I did back in the early '80s (I
had yet to hear the word microtone) were done with my sisters clarinet
(by changing the pitch position on the 4-track and overdubbing
intentionally altered pitch parts on parts)... And in the giant
beating "chords" and other beautiful things of the playback, I was
*totally* hooked (I still have these on cassette somewhere)... and
though it would take quite awhile to "officially" go "microtonal,"
from that time on I was DEFINITELY into it (I just didn't know what
"it" was yet)... Over the years I've had a ton of (microtonal)
stuff/instruments, but every move seems to lop of a pile of these
(mostly the sub-EMI) things. Anyway, here's a list of what I got
now...

A fretless (Les Paul copy) with and aluminum fingerboard (made by Rick
Canton)... a 20e electric (fretted by Glen Nelson with banjo
fretwire)... a Kramer fretless electric... a 13e (3/4 size) steel
string acoustic... a (no-name) fretless bass... a fretless baritone
ukulele... a Proteus FX... a (real piece of s---) Casio CZ-101 and a
Roland MT-32...

These are instruments (or not-instruments...) that are (more or less)
unintentionally "microtonal"...

An astonishingly "out of tune" Magnus organ... and by way of
attempting to force my turntable to do things it wasn't designed to
like, it is now a permanent source of (illness inducing) microtonal
portamento (and in all seriousness, anything that you can take a real
hands on approach to varying the pitch of I love and find quite
"microtonally" useful, and turntables and tape decks are definitely
two of my faves in this area)... my old Alesis HR-16:B drum machine
(somewhat mysteriously as no one at Alesis would either confirm or
deny this) has voices tuned in groups of overtone octaves (the
incremental pitch numbers on the Alesis are arranged in a number line
from -16 through +15, and the "pipe" voice for instance corresponds to
harmonics 16 through 47, giving eight complete octaves at 16 through
23, and a ninth that abruptly stops at 47/24)... and I still have my
sisters old grade school Bundy Bb (a whole world of microtonal
potential is to be found in very "simple" things -- like the whammy
bar and the whammy pedal, a slide or the tuning pegs, your embouchure
and your fingers, etc., etc. -- and is right there for the taking with
regular old twelve-tone instruments)...

Dan

- oh yeah, even though I have had to abandon many of them, I still do
have a pretty good pile of (pathetically poor workmanship) homemades.