microtonal application for iPhone: Sruti Box

seraph

http://www.jhhl.net/iPhone/SrutiBox/

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xjscott · Joined: Apr 25, 2007 Posts: 232 Location: Appalachia

To clarify what that is based on its description, it just produces a string drone tone and you can choose the tuning of the harmonics. You can't play it via MIDI or via an onscreen keyboard or anything like that, it just plays a sound.

Wout Blommers · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:23 am Post subject:

seraph · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 5:51 am Post subject:

Wout Blommers · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:22 am Post subject:

Carlo, you'll need one hand to play one, so 2 looks enough to me Smile

Over here in The Hague we have a large Surinam Hindu community, so Indian instruments, like the sitar and the tampura, are available. There are about 6 shops which sell those instruments.

Not all of them are that cheap, but the ones I use in my school have only 8 tones to them, so regarding my budget in reach. Electronic ones are much more expensive, but to the performing artist they are in practise much cheaper, because one doesn't need an extra player Smile

Anyway, every child can produce some 'music' with it, so the three I use are very popular to the children: 'Can I play the organ today?'

Wout

xjscott · Joined: Apr 25, 2007 Posts: 232 Location: Appalachia

seraph · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject: