I had a similar discussion here with a professor/composer at the community college. We quickly realized that re-scaling and changing the bridge was going to be necessary for a quarter tone piano. I received a note from the Kawai tech (names slips me) about utilizing a Kawai synth keyboard that allowed such tinkering and Dr. Gorecki went with it. We also talked about tuning two pianos a quarter tone off from each other and he saw the practical application thereof. Haven't done it yet but it may happen. For the time being the ability to experiment with this on a synth keyboard has been adequate. Good luck, Andrew Anderson On Mar 24, 2009, at 9:41 PM, Greg Hollister wrote: > This guy is a piano teacher and a physics major who wants to explore > and compose in a new direction. It is, in fact, an octave divided > into 19 notes and it has apparently been around for a while. I'm > trying to figure out how to respond to the idea. I realize we are > talking piano anathema here. Since a 19 note temperament could only > make for about 4 1/2 octaves on an 88 note keyboard something would > have to give in a big way. Without re-scaling the piano I'd probably > have to chooose some bass note (say A2) as a bottom note and then > crank down everything above it accordingly. I'm sure there are some > out there who have been asked to prepare a piano ala John Cage and > this would be along that line. Again, I'm not planning on doing this > on rental Steinway. Greg Hollister RPT > Live long and prosper. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090324/ac5acbe2/attachment.html>
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