piano tuning / Indian music scales...?

[Harry Bissell]

Yes, yes...yes

You can make the 100 ohm resistors anything you want, unless you run out of
voltage compliance in the current source... (ie you need a 40V supply....)

OR you can make each key a separate voltage source, with tuning for each note...

or something clever like that.

Did you need the octaves to still be correct ??? if so select the octaves via
some group of keys and then offset by individual note...

Or just make the whole keyboard cover a reduced range... like 2 octaves instead
of four... thats 1/4 tone steps...

IMHO a lot of indian music today USES synthesizer. They have a huge film industry
cranking out soundtracks...

For a good sitar sound, you need some drones going at a constant pitch, and then
lots of skilled pitch bend work. Some resonators would help. I'd get an old
autoharp, bolt a speaker to the bottom of it (underside) and then mic the top (or
use guitar pickups) to add the sympathetic vibrations. This was done on an
instrument called the Coral Electic Sitar (by Danelectro in the 60's) It has a
six string neck... and twelve drones beneath it that had a separate pickup and
tuning...

Listen to the melodies and you will be on your way...

:^) Harry

RevTor at aol.com wrote:

> All,
>   Im in the process of getting my CV keyboard up and running and since I
> already have a midi/cv converter, I was thinking of maybe setting this up in
> a different scale, perhaps a microtonal style tuning.?  correct me if i am
> wrong, but is this the Indian scale?  Sure you can rig up a decent sitar
> patch, but it doesnt sound too convincing with the standard piano tuning.
> So.. Is this possible?  Could it be done by replacing the 100ohm resistors on
> each key to another value?  Or would pots be needed and each one need to be
> tuned?  Or is the basic piano key architecture not sutiable for what I want
> to do?  Anyone have any links off hand relating to this?  Thanks again,
> ~SteveM