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Very cool. Number keys and QWERTYU (or clicking the rows on the right) trigger the "modes" in isolation, which are surprisingly microtonal.

Also you can draw your own drums! What! That's so cool

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there's an amazing video on youtube about how metal bar/gong instruments (like gamelans) have different overtones, and regular western intervals instead of being consonant (like with vibrating strings) are dissonant - even perfect 5ths - and a totally different set of intervals are consonant (slendro and pelog tunings are a bit different for this reason).

thinking about it, each drum here would have totally different ideal scales to the others.

this is cool.

A friend told me that a Dutch university ordered a custom gamelan tuned chromatically. It was a total failure and sounds terrible. The gamelan are made one by one w the oldest member of the group making his first and everyone tuning theirs from his down in turn, IIRC.

Do you have a hint on how to find that video?

It’s “The Physics of Dissonance”: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tCsl6ZcY9ag

Wow, thanks for sharing.

The video shows this tool, which has a 3D harmony/dissonance explorer, which can be used as a makeshift musical insturment.

https://aatishb.com/dissonance/

Thank you!

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