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"Fluid tuning" refers specifically to the tuning system developed by Geoff Smith which makes a piano or a hammer dulcimer dynamically retunable. See [http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2009/nov/22/fluid-piano-classical-music http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2009/nov/22/fluid-piano-classical-music] for a video, see [http://www.dulcimer.co.uk/ Geoff Smith]'s website. | "Fluid tuning" refers specifically to the [[tuning]] system developed by [[Geoff Smith]] which makes a piano or a hammer dulcimer dynamically retunable. See [http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2009/nov/22/fluid-piano-classical-music http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2009/nov/22/fluid-piano-classical-music] for a video, see [http://www.dulcimer.co.uk/ Geoff Smith]'s website. | ||
Generalized, "fluid tuning" could mean any instrument which offers a "temporarily fixed" tuning. That is, at any one moment, the instrument offers a finite set of fixed pitches, yet it also allows the ''continuous'' change of what those pitches are. Each pitch-producing mechanism in the instrument (each "voice") then has a defined frequency range. A fluid tuning could then be defined by a set of interval ranges instead of a set of single pitches. | Generalized, "fluid tuning" could mean any instrument which offers a "temporarily fixed" tuning. That is, at any one moment, the instrument offers a finite set of fixed pitches, yet it also allows the ''continuous'' change of what those pitches are. Each pitch-producing mechanism in the instrument (each "voice") then has a defined frequency range. A fluid tuning could then be defined by a set of interval ranges instead of a set of single pitches. | ||
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Defined in that way, instruments with fluid tuning also include the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcuAk5UY5g8 pitch bending thumb piano], the moveable-frets guitar, and perhaps even the [http://www.oneringzero.com/?page_id=57 claviola], as well as a number of interfaces made possible with computers. | Defined in that way, instruments with fluid tuning also include the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcuAk5UY5g8 pitch bending thumb piano], the moveable-frets guitar, and perhaps even the [http://www.oneringzero.com/?page_id=57 claviola], as well as a number of interfaces made possible with computers. | ||
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