Flute
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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.
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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 /> 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>