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Microtonal tuning?

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  • 10-10-2001 3:44pm
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    Gordon
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    Just wondering if anyone has dabbled in microtonal tuning (tuning instruments to have more than 12 semitones per octave for example). Or even if anyone is dabbling in the music of the planets? (of the solar system)

    Anybody?:)


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    Giblet
    Registered Users Posts: 11,980 ✭✭✭✭Giblet


    Like on a guitar


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    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    like on anything really. It is possible to tune guitars to have 15 notes per octave but the problem is that you have overlapping strings as far as I see. The easiest way for me to achieve alternative tunings is via MIDI and pitch shift in cents.

    I'm not talking about tuning guitars to wierd open tunings, I mean physically changing the structure of the relationship between notes - ie. adding more frets and changing the positions.


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    comanche
    Closed Accounts Posts: 248 ✭✭comanche


    just get a fretless anything! .... sorted! ....


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    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    I do, just wondering if anyone else has experience or is interested in breaking from the norm and using more notes than the western world does! :cool:

    Lucy Tuning website has some interesting ideas if you are interested.


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    Giblet
    Registered Users Posts: 11,980 ✭✭✭✭Giblet


    well i was playing this chord (has a long wierd name like g/dsus2/13# or something over a C

    d---5--
    a---3--
    f#--4--
    d---5--
    a---5--
    d---(2)

    it sounded nice


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    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Is that not a D major chord? or is that dadfad the open tuning and the numbers are the frets on your guitar?

    Oh I see, thats your open tuning huh? wow, you freeky dude you! Yeh thats some kind of Gminor chord, with a dash of suspended 2nd and a twist of major 6th into the smorgasbord. My old music teacher would be proud of you!

    One of my personal fave guitar chord with normal tuning has got to be

    E - 0
    B - 5
    G - 0
    D - 6
    A - 7
    E - 0

    That is Emajorminor or Emm?as I like to call it!:D


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