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Topic: The Fluid Piano video and Indian scales

No one else posted about this, so I will:  A piano, of sorts, that can be tuned on the fly:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/no...eoff-smith

This was linked on the Pianoworld forum at:

http://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubbthre...784/1.html

I do love those scales.

Last edited by Jake Johnson (06-12-2009 15:17)

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Re: The Fluid Piano video and Indian scales

(Here's an excellent overview of the Indian scales and tunings:

http://cnx.org/content/m12459/latest/ )


The above site has a hard-to-see link to another site that includes a chart of the tuning changes in cents, for each note, comparing it to Western tuning. (And in HZ for the middle C octave.) It's part of a promotion for a class in singing the scales:

http://www.perfectthird.com/Perfect%20third.htm

So much to learn...

Last edited by Jake Johnson (06-12-2009 17:23)