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certainly does ring a bell - lol
Originally posted by sonhouseit will take some clever thinking to get to the root of this, and you'll need to think inside the square... ;-)
Well if it wasn't famous before it will be now, So on a scale from 1 to 12, how many people do you think understand? I expect some sharp answers here.
Originally posted by xcomradexMaybe if we pitched it a different way he would appreciate it? Of course I thought we were pretty chordial already.
our sense of humor doesn't strike a chord with you?...
Originally posted by AThousandYoungHey, great article. I saved it in favorites. I went one better than all those people however. I made a VARIABLE fret ruler. Think about that one for a while. See if you can duplicate my efforts. At the dulcimer festivals when I made it, I would take it to the luthiers booths where they had their instruments made and was able to check ALL their instruments with one tool. I became known in the duclimer circles as the 'Fret nazi'🙂 It was suprising how many had the frets in the wrong place and was glaringly obvious using my tool, well my fret ruler tool anyway🙂
Spoiler ahead!
http://www.avdgs.org.au/nlissue05.html
Originally posted by sofar55Ah, I guess we have led people on long enough. Most of the dudes answering just google it in and get a rough idea but not being musicians wouldn't have a clue as to whats its about.
so what exactly is the importance of the number anyway?
i don't get it
Originally posted by sonhouseApparently a nineteen note is the next best after twelve. This gives a scale where the notes are separated by thirds-of-a-tone (rather than semitones) thus:
I played with the 18th root of 2 and found it has notes that are close to the blues scale so people experiment around with alternative scales a lot!
Originally posted by howardbradleyThat is one interesting site! Co-incidentally, I just finished my all me CD, all original tunes plus my entry in the music competition here, john hardy which is a traditional song. Using ordinary 12 tone instruments. Actually the lap dulcimer has frets taken out to make the notes equal to the white keys of a piano. Its an interesting study in modal tunings. I wrote a tune today, I called it an Elizibethan tune for no particular reason, but what is interesting about it is when the dulcimer is capoed up the character of the scales changes completely.
Apparently a nineteen note is the next best after twelve. This gives a scale where the notes are separated by thirds-of-a-tone (rather than semitones) thus:
C, C#, Db, D, D#, Eb, E, E#, F, F#, Gb, G, G#, Ab, A, A#, Bb, B, B#.
Note that in this scale C# and Db (and similar pairs) are NOT enharmonic.
Amazingly, people have built instruments ba ...[text shortened]... http://eceserv0.ece.wisc.edu/~sethares/tet19/guitarchords19.html for details of a "19 guitar"