isaacullah
2446 posts
Jul 14, 2013
12:30 PM
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Hi all! As many of you know, I love making and playing alternately tuned "diatonic" harmonicas. I've been working on some of my "own" alternate tuning systems, and have been thinking a lot about what my goals are with each tuning I come up with. I've enjoyed that process, so I thought it would be fun to create a survey that all you lovely folks could participate in too! I'm doing this only out of curiosity, and the survey is quick, anonymous, and the results will be available to all. Hopefully the results will prove interesting and insightful to anyone interested in alternate tuning systems! I'll embed the survey here, and then we can use the rest of this thread to discuss the results as they become available!
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Last Edited by isaacullah on Jul 14, 2013 12:46 PM
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isaacullah
2447 posts
Jul 14, 2013
12:54 PM
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In case you can't find the link after taking the survey, or if you just want to see the results without participating, here's the link: See survey results.
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isaacullah
2450 posts
Jul 15, 2013
2:42 PM
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Just giving this a bump. 36 survey participants so far... I'd like to get at least a hundred or so, in order for the results to be statistically significant... Any and everyone, regardless of age or stage, is welcome to participate...
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SuperBee
1308 posts
Jul 15, 2013
2:54 PM
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I just wanted an extra note without having to OB. Which category is that?
I don't have a second or third interest, and certainly not a bottom 3
Also, appears to be something up with the results about Time playing. Many more than 36 responses there. And I think the average daily response chart has a glitch
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isaacullah
2452 posts
Jul 15, 2013
3:06 PM
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@SuperBee: I think your need would fall into category 3 "3. Natural Notes (arrangement of notes so as to increase the number of notes available without bending)". It's fine to have only a single interest or no bottom interest... The data will reflect the total amount of top and bottom interests, and treats any checked boxes in each of those two categories as "equal". I chose to arrange the survey that way as there are numerous studies that show that humans are really great at choosing things/ideas/people/etc. that they think are really good, and those that are really bad, but they have a very hard time ordering things in between those extremes. Thus, surveys that ask people to "rank" things from best to worst really don't tell you more than just what folks think are good and what are bad, so you might as well just ask them that to begin with! :)
BTW, I count 36 responses in the time since playing results. each line is one person (the date they started), unless more than one person started in the same year/month, then an extra day is added to that line.
Thanks for participating!!
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SuperBee
1309 posts
Jul 15, 2013
3:25 PM
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Oh, ok I see how that works now! Duh
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isaacullah
2462 posts
Jul 16, 2013
11:48 AM
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One last BUMP. I've almost got 50 participants now, and i'd love to get just a few more! :)
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nacoran
6941 posts
Jul 16, 2013
9:18 PM
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Is the time started tabulating correctly? That does not look bellcurverific.
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Aussiesucker
1292 posts
Jul 16, 2013
10:33 PM
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I'm so ancient that it would not accept the year I first started playing. If one comes up as 950 it should actually be 1950!
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groyster1
2306 posts
Jul 16, 2013
11:10 PM
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this is a little strange but interesting
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isaacullah
2466 posts
Jul 17, 2013
8:47 AM
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57 participants so far! That's great! The results should be pretty significant right now (p > 0.85), so we can start to examine them and think about what they mean...
@Nate: The time since playing thing didn't work the way I thought it would. I literally is just a date (month/year, and then day). So the "number" you see highlighted on each line is actually a day of the month, and not a number of years since playing. I'd have to go into the underlying spreadsheet, and create a formula to calculate the number of years played.
@Aussiesucker: No worries! :) I see that you are not the only one to have made a typo there... I've got someone who has played since the year 59AD, and another who has played since the year 1! Must be vampires! Lol!
@groyster: I agree! The results are not quite what I expected, but there is a clear consensus among survey participants... I'll wait a couple more days to let the numbers come up as far as they can, but it looks like the patterns are pretty well set as of now...
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snakes
705 posts
Jul 17, 2013
3:36 PM
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Hopefully my definition of alternate tunings fits yours. I chose 7 alternate tunings as that is how many minor tuned harps I have. Now if you define it otherwise; such as harmonic minor versus natural minor (referencing Lee Oskars here) than I probably would change the number to three.
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snakes
706 posts
Jul 17, 2013
3:37 PM
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Add - how many different keys of altenate tuned harps.
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nacoran
6945 posts
Jul 17, 2013
6:50 PM
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For the record, I've played standard, minor, and harmonic minor. I also included my Turboslide, since it seemed to fit the definition, and maybe not truly in the definition, but related, I've played solo tuned tremolos. (Also played a chromatic, but that wouldn't fit the definition.) I've played low tunings too (in addition to a low tuned harmonic minor.) That might be an interesting breakdown, what tunings people have tried.
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isaacullah
2472 posts
Jul 18, 2013
8:05 AM
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Thanks guys! I meant the number of different types of tuning systems, not keys of the same system, but it's no big deal. There's enough respondents now to cover for those types of error (60 at last check). Low tunings do count, as those are meant to extend the range of the harp into other octaves.
I purposely didn't ask people to check off which tunings they had tried, as I wanted to keep this survey as short and accessible as possible. i.e., so that even folks who haven't tried and altered tuning could respond with what they imagine they might think of IF they were to do so. I think a follow up survey asking some of these more detailed questions might be interesting to do at a later date. First, I want to analyse these results and see what they all mean! :)
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