Re: (OT) non-octave scales (was Re: various infotaining natlang tidbits)

>From: Roger Mills <romilly@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: (OT) non-octave scales (was Re: various infotaining natlang
>           tidbits)
>Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 23:18:45 -0400
>
>Just out of curiosity, if one found an old Casio keyboard at a yard-sale,
>say, would it be possible to re-do the tuning to _n_ tones to the octave
>(or
>whatever)?  Or is that likely a job for Mr. Electronics Genius, which I am
>not?
Probably not unless it's a top-end Casio.  But my Yamaha keyboard (which got
stolen AAAARRGH) had a function where you could fine tune each of the 12
tones up or down by 64 cents (a cent is 1/100th of a chromatic step), so one
could use just intonation.

The Wier Minor Scale can be played by detuning E and B by 50 cents and
starting from D.  That results in a pentatonic minor scale with two added
tones halfway between the two wide intervals.

I'll work on a MIDI file and upload it to my webpage soon.

>From another angle-- I think I've mentioned my attempt to build a
>zither-type instrument tuned 10 to the octave.  Sounds like Jonathan's
>JI-Calc could generate the tones necessary to tune that (so frets could be
>dispensed with).  Am I correct?
I dunno -- but I am sure glad I ripped the frets out of my bass so I can
play things like... the Wier Scale!

(Or did somebody already invent that scale?)

Danny Wier  ¶¦¬þ
Lufkin, Texas USA
http://communities.msn.com/DaWier
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