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Metal conduit pipe is a good place to start, since you can quickly make an instrument with an octave in any tuning. But for the computer, I prefer Csound. It offers the freedom to have as many notes as I'd like, free from the limitations of MIDI channel trickery. It offers terrific flexibility to modify the tone after creation, with the application of envelopes for each note, tuning vectors for glissandi, and the ability to have any instrument play any note you can imagine.

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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;Prent Rodgers&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;What was your path to discovering alternate tunings?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;I went to graduate school in music at U.C.S.D. in 1975-1977, where I met Jonathan Glasier, Tom Nunn, and David Poyourow. Jon had worked with Harry Partch, and Tom &amp;amp; David liked to play music on found objects. All three felt the 12-tone world was too restrictive. I joined up to play music in the park on brake drums, flower pots, and assorted aluminum instruments purchased at local junk yards. Early on we visited Erv Wilson in Hollywood, who showed us his 31-tone tubalong, made from metallic electrical conduit pipe. We quickly went back to San Diego and built our own. I then went on an instrument inventing and building binge. I made a 31-tone finger piano, 31-tone xylophone, and 31-tone brass tubalongs. I also built some balloon flutes, balloon helium organ, balloon shrieks, balloon drums, and few other balloon instruments, with no reliable tuning system. Other amplified percussion instruments with indeterminant tunings followed.&lt;br /&gt;

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&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;What instruments or means have you successfully used in the making of microtonal music? Recommendations?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Metal conduit pipe is a good place to start, since you can quickly make an instrument with an octave in any tuning. But for the computer, I prefer Csound. It offers the freedom to have as many notes as I'd like, free from the limitations of MIDI channel trickery. It offers terrific flexibility to modify the tone after creation, with the application of envelopes for each note, tuning vectors for glissandi, and the ability to have any instrument play any note you can imagine.&lt;br /&gt;