source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 19:31:49 -0700 Subject: Micrtonal wind instruments From: John Chalmers Martin Vogel has constructed "enharmonic" jazz and concert trumpets as well as tubas and french horns for playing in JI. For details, pictures and fingering charts, see his books, "Die Zukunft der Musik," and "On the Relations of Tone," the English translation of his "Die Lehre von dem Tonbeziehungen." All three are in the ORPHEUS series of monographs, which he edits and many libraries carry. Most of the volumes are only in German, however. Mandelbaum references an article by Sigmund Stein, "Quarter-Tone Data" in the Pro-Musica Quarterly of March 1925. This article mentions a quarter-tone trumpet built in Odessa, Russia in the 19th century and quarter-tone clarinets. Haba's used quarter-tone trumpets and clarinets in his 1/4-tone opera "Die Mutter" in the 1920's. (from Mandelbaum's dissertation, p.141). A modern performance of this work has been recorded by Supraphone and may still be available. A well-known American jazz musician (Don Ellis?) plays a quarter-tone trumpet. I don't know if Wyschnegradsky used quarter-tone wind instruments, but either Franck Jedrzejewski or the people at Montreal should know. A fourth valve is necessary, but apparently the the modifications are not too complex. --John Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 16:33 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA09560; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 16:34:24 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA09573 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA03949; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 07:34:22 -0700 Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 07:34:22 -0700 Message-Id: <91960830142319/0005695065PK3EM@MCIMAIL.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu