Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie
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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostNot domestic digital pianos and keyboards, for sure. The Yamaha DX7 synthesizer (the first commercially successful instrument to use digital sound synthesis, for those who don't know) had such a feature, but I don't imagine more than a tiny percentage of owners actually used it.
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Originally posted by MrGongGong View PostThere are quite a few made for other markets that have other tunings. I used to sometimes work with a Kurdish musician who had an electronic keyboard that would play modes with microtonal intervals.
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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostOriginally posted by Dave2002 View PostIt should be possible to switch between equal temperament and other tunings which might be useful for performing different types of music. I don't know if any instruments provide this feature.
However, I have only used the default "piano equivalent" Stretched Equal Temperament.
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:eek: (I'm not sure that that's what an Eek really looks like!)
I've just looked in the User Manual for my Casio GP-500.
It has 16 temperament options, most of which I have never heard of.
Perhaps I should use one when I'm learning my notes for choir, and challenge our director when he says I'm singing flat.
The 16 options are:
Equal temperament
Pure Major
Pure Minor
Pythagorean
Kirnberger 3
Werckmeister
Mean-Tone
Rast
Bayati
Hijaz
Saba
Dashti
Chahargah
Segah
Gurjari Todi
Chandrakauns
Charukeshi
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostI've just looked in the User Manual for my Casio GP-500.
It has 16 temperament options
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Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostOK - we're making progress on the tuning/temperament issues.
Next question - can any do "prepared piano" forms, as per John Cage and George Crumb - to suggest a couple.
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Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
For educational uses I find unplugging the headphones and having a large ensemble of "nasty" keyboards can work quite well.
You're just being a very naughty boy.
I'm not convinced that in schools anyone really learns much about harmony by being in the equivalent of a battery chicken farm any more than people learn to speak another languge in a "language laboratory" ? The model of "music as a solitary activity" that rooms full of keyboards with headphones encourage is a bit limited IMV
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Originally posted by Eine AlpensinfonieI could do with one that feels like a piano, but is battery operated for busking.
All suggestions welcome.Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostI think that’s a bit tough. For a bit more than £1000 (maybe £1400) some of the Roland portable pianos sound good, and have touch sensitive keys, but I don’t know if they have a convenient battery power provision.
There may be external battery systems which can provide power, but could be heavy. Ideally one would hope for a low voltage source which could feed straight into a portable device, otherwise an inverter would be needed to generate mains voltage. I think there should be an instrument with the features you want, but I don’t know how to find one.
If you don’t mind a noisy accompaniment, you could buy a generator
Generators? Forget it, though some people do use car batteries, which is rather risky in that a careless mistake could blow the electronics.
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
Linked groups of keyboards with headphones works a treat. Working against a wall of noise is a forerunner of Hell.
When I was at secondary school we had a "language laboratory" in a similar manner. I learnt no French at all BUT did discover that I could get the tape to run backwards and by inducing drag on the spools (it used 1/4" tape) get all sorts of interesting sounds. So in a way, I learnt more about what Pierre Schaeffer was up to than how to buy an ice cream, which has been much more useful in my subsequent life.
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostI've scanned the web, and the only ones that might be OK don't have properly weighted keys. Our trio wants to do some busking for publicity.
Generators? Forget it, though some people do use car batteries, which is rather risky in that a careless mistake could blow the electronics.
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
Generators? Forget it, though some people do use car batteries, which is rather risky in that a careless mistake could blow the electronics.
Done many performances in quarries and parks this way including running multiple wireless headphone systems for audiences etc
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