Terry,It's called microtonal music. Yes, 97 notes in an octave may seem extreme but I thought you enjoyed a Neil Young feedback solo as much as I do! Try some Harry Partch, Javanese gamelan music, LaMonte Young (whose "The Well Tuned Piano" sounds nothing like Bach!), and many many others. Patrick Draine On 10/31/07, Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > > Might someone care to enlighten those of us who are not familiar with > whatever the heck we are talking about here. Please tell me there is a > typing error here - 97 notes spanning only one octave? Shirley, you must > be > joking! > > Terry Farrell > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> On Oct 30, 2007, at 20:17, Gene Nelson wrote: > >> Anyone ever see Sauter's 97 note upright that spans one octave? The > >> question is: can it be tuned aurally? Gene > > > > > > I've seen it, but the question I had at the time was of motivation. Why? > > Why not add 4 keys, have it span 100¢ and test aural acuity? > > Conrad Hoffsommer > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20071031/bcd6aeba/attachment.html
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