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===Custom Flutes=== | ===Custom Flutes=== | ||
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Above: a hand-made PVC flute tuned to 7 EDO, which can also play many intermediate notes of 14 EDO. | Above: a hand-made PVC flute tuned to 7 EDO, which can also play many intermediate notes of 14 EDO with cross-fingerings. | ||
The flute was completed in under 12 hours and required under 1 USD of raw materials. One could feasibly hope to make multitudes of these inexpensive flutes for every EDO or other tuning scheme. | The flute was completed in under 12 hours and required under 1 USD of raw materials. One could feasibly hope to make multitudes of these inexpensive flutes for every EDO or other tuning scheme. | ||
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Above: a hand-made PVC flute tuned to 7 EDO, which can also play many intermediate notes of 14 EDO.<br /> | Above: a hand-made PVC flute tuned to 7 EDO, which can also play many intermediate notes of 14 EDO with cross-fingerings.<br /> | ||
The flute was completed in under 12 hours and required under 1 USD of raw materials. One could feasibly hope to make multitudes of these inexpensive flutes for every EDO or other tuning scheme.<br /> | The flute was completed in under 12 hours and required under 1 USD of raw materials. One could feasibly hope to make multitudes of these inexpensive flutes for every EDO or other tuning scheme.<br /> | ||
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Revision as of 14:06, 19 September 2013
IMPORTED REVISION FROM WIKISPACES
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**Flute Microtones**
Playing microtones on a concert flute is as simple as rotating the head plate towards or away from your lips (__not__ twisting against the body!) to decrease or increase the effective length. Increasing the distance sharpens the note, and vice versa. This requires extremely-minute precision and fine muscle memory for instant execution. You may also need to change your embouchure to avoid whisper tones.
For example, suppose you want to play a tone of 449 hertz (A4+35¢). The closest note in the 12 tone tempered scale is A4 at 440 hertz, so you would need to sharpen this note by approximately a sixth-tone, or 35 cents. You would accomplish this by rotating the head plate away from your lips. This technically increases the effective length of the flute, which physics dictates would normally flatten a note, though contrary to common sense it does the opposite.
Additionally, some flutes come with holes in the keys ("ring keys") to facilitate quarter tone use. However, I do not recommend you purchase this type of flute unless if you have a desire to play in [[24edo|24 EDO]]. These holes allegedly change the tone-color, which might be considered an undesirable side effect.
===Custom Flutes===
[[image:7edo-flute-01.JPG width="480" height="94"]]
Above: a hand-made PVC flute tuned to 7 EDO, which can also play many intermediate notes of 14 EDO with cross-fingerings.
The flute was completed in under 12 hours and required under 1 USD of raw materials. One could feasibly hope to make multitudes of these inexpensive flutes for every EDO or other tuning scheme.
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[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3GD0Omr4Z0|Eva Kingma and the quarter-tone flute ]]- video demonstration of a modified flute able to play quartertonesOriginal HTML content:
<html><head><title>Flutes</title></head><body><strong>Flute Microtones</strong><br /> <br /> Playing microtones on a concert flute is as simple as rotating the head plate towards or away from your lips (<u>not</u> twisting against the body!) to decrease or increase the effective length. Increasing the distance sharpens the note, and vice versa. This requires extremely-minute precision and fine muscle memory for instant execution. You may also need to change your embouchure to avoid whisper tones.<br /> <br /> For example, suppose you want to play a tone of 449 hertz (A4+35¢). The closest note in the 12 tone tempered scale is A4 at 440 hertz, so you would need to sharpen this note by approximately a sixth-tone, or 35 cents. You would accomplish this by rotating the head plate away from your lips. This technically increases the effective length of the flute, which physics dictates would normally flatten a note, though contrary to common sense it does the opposite.<br /> <br /> Additionally, some flutes come with holes in the keys ("ring keys") to facilitate quarter tone use. However, I do not recommend you purchase this type of flute unless if you have a desire to play in <a class="wiki_link" href="/24edo">24 EDO</a>. These holes allegedly change the tone-color, which might be considered an undesirable side effect.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:0:<h3> --><h3 id="toc0"><a name="x--Custom Flutes"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:0 -->Custom Flutes</h3> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextLocalImageRule:2:<img src="/file/view/7edo-flute-01.JPG/451727072/480x94/7edo-flute-01.JPG" alt="" title="" style="height: 94px; width: 480px;" /> --><img src="/file/view/7edo-flute-01.JPG/451727072/480x94/7edo-flute-01.JPG" alt="7edo-flute-01.JPG" title="7edo-flute-01.JPG" style="height: 94px; width: 480px;" /><!-- ws:end:WikiTextLocalImageRule:2 --><br /> Above: a hand-made PVC flute tuned to 7 EDO, which can also play many intermediate notes of 14 EDO with cross-fingerings.<br /> The flute was completed in under 12 hours and required under 1 USD of raw materials. One could feasibly hope to make multitudes of these inexpensive flutes for every EDO or other tuning scheme.<br /> <br /> <br /> Links<br /> <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3GD0Omr4Z0" rel="nofollow">Eva Kingma and the quarter-tone flute </a>- video demonstration of a modified flute able to play quartertones</body></html>