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Re: Show HN: Microtonal Piano

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Post by ryanmcbride »

jjslocum3 wrote: post #4

I knew a musician who once clicked on a "ring for customer service" bell at the service counter of a laundromat, and then told the arriving attendant "Your bell is a quarter-tone flat."

Stuff like that always bugs me because since it's not immediately verifiable it just feels like flexing for no reason

Re: Show HN: Microtonal Piano

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

Obligatory reference to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's album "Flying Microtonal Banana"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Microtonal_Banana

Excerpt: "the album is recorded in quarter tone tuning, where an octave is divided into 24 (logarithmically) equal-distanced quarter tones; it was originally conceived to play on a baglama, so the band members used instruments specifically modified for microtonal tuning, as well as other Middle-Eastern instruments like the zurna."

Billabong Valley live at KEXP: https://youtu.be/bvtF2Ie90m0

Re: Show HN: Microtonal Piano

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

ryanmcbride wrote: post #6
jjslocum3 wrote: post #4

I knew a musician who once clicked on a "ring for customer service" bell at the service counter of a laundromat, and then told the arriving attendant "Your bell is a quarter-tone flat."

Stuff like that always bugs me because since it's not immediately verifiable it just feels like flexing for no reason

But what if it was designed to be a quarter tone flat by another flexing musician?

Re: Show HN: Microtonal Piano

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Post by Loughla »

franze wrote: post #5

An a similar but also not similar note, today in the morning I and chatgpt tried to create a new kind of musical instrument https://franzelio.franzai.com/ sadly no uptick on HN

After three lines and probably 15 balls it started screeching at me.
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