Fluid tuning
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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 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. Defined in that way, instruments with fluid tuning also include the [[http://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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<html><head><title>Fluid tuning</title></head><body>"Fluid tuning" refers specifically to the tuning system developed by Geoff Smith which makes a piano or a hammer dulcimer dynamically retunable. See <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:7:http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2009/nov/22/fluid-piano-classical-music --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2009/nov/22/fluid-piano-classical-music" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2009/nov/22/fluid-piano-classical-music</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:7 --> for a video, see <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.dulcimer.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">Geoff Smith</a>'s website.<br /> <br /> 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 <em>continuous</em> 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.<br /> <br /> Defined in that way, instruments with fluid tuning also include the <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcuAk5UY5g8" rel="nofollow">pitch bending thumb piano</a>, the moveable-frets guitar, and perhaps even the <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.oneringzero.com/?page_id=57" rel="nofollow">claviola</a>, as well as a number of interfaces made possible with computers.</body></html>