[sdiy] Linear detuning and Gamelan

[Tim Parkhurst]

On 8/4/05, dougall <dougalli at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Oh, and this is not to mention that every gamelan I've played in England,
> > Java or Bali has been tuned to a different absolute scale and set of
> > intervals/beat frequencies between the notes!  There is no standard in this
> > area at all.
> 
> I was in Indonesia about a month ago and watched a local musician
> tuning his Bonang Barung (bowl gongs).  The whole process looked very
> random to the untrained eye.  He would play through the all the notes,
> swap a couple of the bowls (Bonangs?) and then play through them all
> again.  Every so often he would pick one out and bash it with a hammer
> then place it back with the others and start playing and swapping
> again.  Sometimes if the hammer was not enough he would bash the bowl
> against the trunk of a palm tree.  He did this for about 20 mins
> before he started playing.
> 

Hmm, I think that's also how you tune a PAIA 2700 series synth isn't it?
;)


Tim (singing this note 'cause it fits in well with the chords I'm playing) Servo

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