(*Intended as sarcasm*) Throw out your harps, Western music is for simpletons. Any good musician works in micro-tonals. Anyone who says otherwise clearly doesn't understand music theory and their opinion should be ignored. The advent of micro-tonal music has rendered any other music totally useless and ineffective.
Blues is microtonal; you often hear it said that the "blue notes" are the flatted 3rd, 5th and 7th, but actually the blue notes are somewhere between the flatted 3rd and natural 3rd, flatted 5th and natural 5th and the flatted 7th and natural 7th.
i play microtonal, i put extra frets on the guitar so the blue notes are built in and i dont have to bend. when i play a guitar thats not mine i still play that way only on my fingernails between certain frets.
Western musicians play microtonal it's just usually not notated LOL Funny the overture to Big River has one note that just says long bend but no note is really shown. It made me laugh the first time I saw it. ---------- Emile "Diggs" D'Amico a Legend In His Own Mind How you doin'
Miles, You have probably heard more Harry Partch than you realize in applications exactly as you describe. I understand he provided a lot of music for television and movies, but I can't cite any specific work.
I was suprised to learn that Harry tuned his instruments in Just Intonation, he used more than 12 step to the octave though. Some instuments divide the octave into 43 steps.
This Partch instrument has always interested me. It looks like it is made from 5 gallon water bottles but they are actully physics lab vacuum bottles know as "Cloud Chambers"
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