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The MIDI controller project
Links collected from the friends of MMM in order to crack the code of making the microtonal MIDI keyboard controller.
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Concertina and Melodeon Tuning and Repairing
Article on techniques of tuning and repairing concertinas and melodeons by Henry Dryerre, 1890. 3 pp.
http://www.lvcott.fsnet.co.uk/Work1890.pdf |
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Aaron Krister Johnson
Lots o' works in alternate tunings of all sorts
http://www.akjmusic.com/works.html |
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Armonium
Museo Di Fisica, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita "La Sapienza" Roma: The musical instrument described, made here to purposely construct from Blaserna for the study delle consonanze, delle dissonances and delle numerical laws sugli musical agreements, has an extension of 5 eighth to exact intonazione (that is based sugli variable intervals between notes della natural scale) with 48 sounds for eighth. That is obtained thanks to the generation of fundamental notes and multiple they diesis.
http://www.phys.uniroma1.it/DipWeb/museo/acu34.htm |
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Daniel Thompson Microtonal Composer
The microtonal music and ideas of Daniel Thompson, including information on tuning theory.
http://danielthompson.blogspot.com |
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Double Keyboard Bechstein Information
Kraft Piano, W. Palm Beach, FL: "Here are the PDF files of the book History of the Emanuel Moór Double Keyboard Piano by Herbert A. Shead."
http://kraftpiano.com/projects.htm |
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Greek and Roman Pipe Organs
Bellum Catilinae. The first two items are from The Story of the Organ by C.F. Abdy Williams, published in 1903 by Walter Scott Publishing and Charles Scribner's Sons. The third is from William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (New York, Harper, 1874). (Galpin's hydraulis is at MFA, Boston, nr.17.1942)
http://users.ipa.net/~tanker/organs.htm |
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Harmonium, M369: Peter Samuel Munck af Rosenschöld & O. B. Ekström? Lund, Sverige Ca. 1850
Pressure. Compass F1-f3=96 enharmonic pitches=19 pitches/oct... No stops. 96 reeds. Lower keys covered in ivory, upper keys with ebony. Meas. 100.5 x 58.5 x 32.5 (78.5) cm. Unsigned. Built by Swedish physicist Peter Samuel Munck of Rosenschoeld, probably in cooperation by piano maker O. B. Ekstroem, Malmoe. donated 1907.
http://stockholm.music.museum/samlingar/detalj.php?l=sv&mmcss=l&iid=96&v=20050112223139 |
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Java Microtuning Organ
JMTOrgan (Windows, Linux, Mac) relays external midi-keyboard to a soundfont enabled soundcard and applies microtuning. This program is intended for historical temperaments, but any 12-tone scale is applicable.
http://www.geocities.com/jeroendonkers/JMTOrgan |
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Just Keys
Chrysalis Foundation."Just Keys is a medium upright or console piano that [Cris Forster] restrung three times and retuned four times in 1990. The graphic ... shows the complete keyboard from the first key in the bass to the last key in the treble."
http://www.chrysalis-foundation.org/just_keys.htm |
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Keislar, D. History and Principles of Microtonal keyboard Design. CCRMA Stanford Univ. Dept. Music, Rep. Nr. STAN-M-45. 04.1988
The flexibility of digital synthesis with respect to pitch suggests the use of new real-time input devices optimized for arbitrary tuning systems. This paper outlines the history of microtonal keyboards with a view towards establishing the most useful design principles. The possibilities of such controllers for computer music are then discussed. This report is a revised version of an article that originally appeared in Computer Music Journal 11(1) in 1987.
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/STANM/stanms/stanm45/ |
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Meantone tuning and layout of Buttons
Allan Atlas on concertina.net discussion group, 26.08.03: " Wheatstone undoubtedly chose a meantone tuning on the grounds that, when he was developing the instrument in the late 1820s, that was the standard tuning in England...And Wheatstone's choice of enharmonic buttons -- E flat/D sharp and A flat/G sharp, with the first note of each pair sounding higher than the second ... served a purely practical purpose: it moved the so-called "wolf [that is, out of tune] fifth" to C sharp and A flat(! ! !), and thus permitted the concertina a fairly in-tune modulatory range from E major (on the sharp side) to E-flat major (on the flat side), with keys on either side of which sounding out of tune."
http://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=99&mode=threaded&pid=745 |
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Micotuner
Max Magic Microtuner (Mac OS X, OS 9) is a microtonal scale editor that can import and export 128-note MIDI Tuning Standard keymap files (.syx, .mid) compatible with the N.I. FM7 and all softsynths supporting this format; it is compatible with Scala (.scl) microtuning files, Korg OASYS PCI card tuning files (.tun) and N.I. Pro-52/53 microtuning files (.p5m); Max/MSP and Pluggo users can compile alternate tuning external objects automatically.
The latest version has new export features including the IRCAM MIDI cent format, the BitHeadz
Unity format and the AnaMark/VAZ Plus formats.
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/16tone/ |
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Microtonal Piano
Chris Finger Pianos, Niwot, CO: "Sauter's amazing 1/16th tone microtonal piano is finally here. This unique instrument spans one octave across 97 keys! We invite you to drop by and take a look at it, and even play it a little (though it doesn't sound as you might expect it to)."
http://www.fingerpianos.com/ |
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OR4-A1765.43: Enharmonic chamber organ, Thomas Parker. London, c.1765.
Small organ similar to Foundling Hospital instrument in Robert Smith tuning
http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/russell/instruments/or4a176543/or4a176543.html |
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Organ by John Brombaugh, Memorial Chapel, Duke University, 1997
"The tuning system used in the Memorial Chapel organ is meantone, the accepted standard for keyboard instruments in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries...To allow composers and keyboard players to venture beyond the usual limitations of meantone tuning, a few historic organs had more than 12 notes per octave, extending the range of tolerable keys. This transient system usually required double (split) keys for Eb and G# so that one could also play the enharmonic notes D# and Ab. To ameliorate this rather curious (and at times awkward) keyboard design for the player, we developed an unusual (but not unprecedented) mechanical system for the Memorial Chapel organ so that one can switch between the enharmonic pitches Eb and D# or G# and Ab on all keyboards by means of two levers."
http://www.chapel.duke.edu/music/organs/brombaugh/builder.aspx |
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Organs with subsemitones (split keys)
Comments and corrections to Ibo Ortgies
http://www.goart.gu.se/ortgies/Subsemi.htm |
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Quartertone Pipe Organ
Logos Foundation: "Module 8: <Qt> This organ is the result of an intensive collaborative effort by Ghislain Potvlieghe (specialist in historic organ building) and Godfried-Willem Raes. The main pupose was to build a wide ambitus organ register tuned in equal temperament quarter tones. The whole instrument had to be easily transportable , dictating the use of brass pipework instead of the traditional lead/tin. The range covers 6 octaves (from midi note 36 to 108) . Wind pressure modulation can be used to expressive puposes. Tremulant effects as well as accented notes are a possibility."
http://www.logosfoundation.org/instrum_gwr/qt.html |
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Quartertones organ-harmonium
Claviers Mi Re Ut: In this instrument a twenty-two note scale is set out in alternating and opposite rows of reeds.
http://www.freewebs.com/mireut/hrmonium.htm |
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Rationale
Free extended-just-intonation sequencer.
http://rationale.sourceforge.net |
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Resources for the Microtonal Composer
Information for those who want to make microtonal music with software or hardware.
http://microtonalresources.blogspot.com |
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Terpstra Keyboard
Cortex Design will soon complete a new MIDI-based generalized keyboard for the American Festival of Microtonal Music (www.afmm.org). It is based on a modified Bosanquet layout by Siemen Terpstra.
http://www.cortex-design.com/body-project-terpstra-1.htm |
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The Free-Reed Organ in England. Allan, R. J. 2003-2004
Enharmonic Harmoniums
http://tardis.dl.ac.uk/FreeReed/English/organ_book/node14.html |
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The enharmonic pipe organ
Hans Andre Stamm describes the acoustic enharmonic instrument built in 1979 by the organ builder SCHMACHER, Eupen,(now: Baelen) Belgium according to the plans of Prof. Dr. Martin Vogel of the University of Bonn.
http://www.eufonia.de/english/orgel.php |
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Tiella, Marco. Musical Experience gained through Working with the Archicembalo Reconstruction
"The article deals with musical experience gained from research into the history and technology of [Vicentino's] archicembalo. It seems important to me to draw the reader’s attention to the fact, that experience gained from the theories (considered from a historicizing point of view) exceeded that acquired through tuning practice. Therefore I am dealing with the questions concerning the musical use of chromatic-enharmonic keyboard instruments mainly from a theoretical point of view."
http://www.muzykologia.uj.edu.pl/conference/papers/Marco%20Tiella.pdf |
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TuneLab World: Real-Time Specialties Piano Technology Products
Advanced piano tuning software tool that provides the ultimate in tuning ease and accuracy - available for both laptops and Pocket PCs.
http://www.tunelab-world.com/ |
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Using TUN files with soft-synths
A very useful "Tutorial for creating TUN files with Scala" written by Jacky Ligon:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala/Scala_TUN_Tutorial.pdf |
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Wraight, Denzil. Zarlino's 24-note Harpsichord built by Domenico da Pesaro, 1548.
"In the literature it has mostly been recorded that the harpsichord had a compass with 19 notes in the octave."
http://www.denzilwraight.com/24note.htm |
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microtonal saxophone
here are some etudes and caprices I wrote and recorded for microtonal sax. scroll down to the bottom of the page to hear them.
http://www.softspeakers.com/saxo/ars-microtonum/ |
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novosonic productions
writings and microtonal sound files
http://home.comcast.net/~gregmcleod/novosonic.html |
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