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Blue JI Psaltery

🔗christopherv <chrisvaisvil@...>

11/17/2010 8:17:41 AM

I'm finding pentatonic scales more and more in my work and this is no exception. In this case I followed through on my thought to use pianoteq and my midi controller to tune the psaltry by matching pitches. In this case I had by ear tuned close to what you hear here and then adjusted to the closest Blue JI pitch.

download 6 megs:

http://micro.soonlabel.com/blue-tuning/blue-ji-psaltry.mp3

Here are the pitches of my psaltry in pitch class notation where C3 = middle C - relative to the Blue JI scala file as interpreted by pianoteq.

G#3
E3
C#3
B2
G#2
F#2
E2
C#2

This is *not* a spectacular piece of music - more or less an exercise and follow through on a previous thought I posted. However I'm finding it interesting that the limited resources are not as limiting as I thought before making and using the psaltry.

Chris