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To: kawhill
Many composers nowadays are interested in microintervals. So, naturally, more instruments capable of producing them are being developed.

I've invented a trombone capable of hitting quarter-tone intervals. Next, I'm working on a violin that can do it.

2 posted on 08/10/2026 4:29:20 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (If the Islamic Republic government is in power in Iran when the war is over, we will have lost.)
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To: KarlInOhio

I never could understand the whole quarter tone scale thing. When I was a music student at DePaul University in the 70s, my music theory professor was promoting it with an electronic organ developed for him by Motorola, the Scalatron. I’m not criticizing it, it just don’t see the point of it, I guess.

https://microtonal.miraheze.org/wiki/Motorola_Scalatron


9 posted on 08/10/2026 6:58:53 PM PDT by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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