List of xenharmonic fixed pitch instruments
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The Great Xenharmonic Fixed-Pitch Instrument Database!
Fill in this page with a list of every known xenharmonic instrument in existence today, to exist as a standard of compatibility for builders to voluntarily adopt when building new fixed-pitch instruments.
| Instrument(s) | Tuning system | Location | Reference note name | Reference pitch (Hz) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Exotic Musical Instruments of Denny Genovese (fixed include bass marimba, 2 xylophones, tubular bells, tubular chimes, fipple pipes) | JI | Gainesville, FL and Urbana, IL | C | 64 |
| The NEWBAND Instrumentarium (instruments by Harry Partch, Dean Drummond, et al.) | JI | Montclair, NJ | G | 392 |
| Ensemble musikFabrik (replicas of all instruments by Harry Partch) | JI | Cologne, Germany | ? | ? |
| Kraig Grady's Ensembles (Vibraphones, Marimbas, Reed Organs, Hammer Dulcimer, Bowed Psaltery, Bass Meru Bars | cps, recurrent sequences | various Anaphorian Embassies | A | 440 |
| Fokker Organ | 31edo | Netherlands | A | 443 (dependent on temperature!) |
| Franz Richter Herf's Ekmelic Organ | 72edo | Salzburg (?), Austria | ? | ? |
| Martin Vogel's enharmonic pipe organ | JI | Vienna, Austria | ? | ? |
| Historical church organs with split semitones | Various | various | ? | ? |
| 3-octave set of tubes | 17edo | Urbana, IL | A | 440 |
| 20-tone set of tubes | 88cet | Urbana, IL | B | 240 |
| Gayle Young's Columbine | JI | Canada? | ? | ? |
| Bohlen-Pierce Clarinets by Steve Fox | Bohlen-Pierce | various (U.S., Canada, Germany) | A | 440 |
| 19edo trumpet (Stephen Altoft, Donald Bousted) | 19edo | ? | ? | ? |
| Keenan Pepper's porcupine marimba | Porcupine-based circulating 15-tone | Berkeley, CA | C | 261.626 |
| Johannes Kotschy's Sound Cube | JI | Salzburg (?), Austria | ? | ? |
| Conic bellophone | 96edo | ? | ? | ? |
| Sauter 1/16 tone piano | 96edo | various | ? | ? |
| Tútim Dennsuul Instruments and Schemes | 23edo | Arica, "Chile" | '6#' | 409.6 |
| Richie Greene's metallophone | 41edo | Portland, OR | C | 261.626 |