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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;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">**Flute Microtones**
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| 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. | | 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. |
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| 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. | | 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. |
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| 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. | | 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. |
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| Above: a hand-made PVC flute tuned to 7 EDO, which can also play many intermediate notes of 14 EDO with cross-fingerings. | | Above: a hand-made PVC flute tuned to 7 EDO, which can also play many intermediate notes of 14 EDO with cross-fingerings. |
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| 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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| | [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3GD0Omr4Z0 Eva Kingma and the quarter-tone flute ]- video demonstration of a modified flute able to play quartertones |
| [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3GD0Omr4Z0|Eva Kingma and the quarter-tone flute ]]- video demonstration of a modified flute able to play quartertones</pre></div>
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| 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 />
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| 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 />
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| Additionally, some flutes come with holes in the keys (&quot;ring keys&quot;) 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 />
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