Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Lyre Tuned to a Whole Tone Scale


Sounded like the sunshine.


This happened after watching the excellent lecture of Bernstein on Impressionism .


A scale close to D  E  F# G# A# C  D was used.


This gave the useful property of  the scale ending on the same note it starts on the 7 string Lyre.


Then everything was raised a semitone. The strings were further stretched and sounded much more harmonic.


The high D sounded shinny. The C not so, it was felt to be less stretched suggesting the use of a larger diameter string for proper scaling.


It would be nice to have many lyres tuned to a whole tone scale, or using one lyre and an echo of a few seconds to make a canon...


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