[Harp-L] re: Fourkey (and other altered tunings)

[Jonathan Ross <jross38@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Winslow asks:

"If the Fourkey is a diatonic, what key is it on?"

A good point.  It is hard to pin down a single key, as it encompasses  
several full diatonic scales in the layout.  That doesn't by default  
make it a chromatic instrument, though.

Remove two keys per octave from a synthesizer, is it still a  
chromatic instrument (as defined in a more or less 12TET framework)?   
You can get the same notes as the two keys by careful use of the  
pitch-bend wheel (assuming the generalized control layout of most  
synthesizers).  Actually, that's not a great analogy, as the sound  
production would still be the same for the bent notes as for the  
unbent ones, unlike in a harmonica.  But, the visual image of the  
keyboard missing two keys is a good one, IMO.



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