reels from @trynotei, one place
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tap a reel to play it here. sound on.
each valve adds a loop of pipe sized to work on its own, so valves pressed together come up short and play sharp. all three run about half a semitone high until the third-valve slide makes up the missing length.
write your own in noteithree rhythms of 4, 5 and 6 beats a bar, sped up 256 times, stop sounding like clicks and turn into three pitches. 4:5:6 is a C major chord.
write your own in noteitwelve pure fifths overshoot seven octaves by 23.46 cents, the pythagorean comma. narrow every fifth by about 2 cents and the circle closes, which is what equal temperament does.
write your own in noteibetween the reels
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a steady note can be a train of clicks. at 256 and 128 clicks a second you hear one steady note, at 32 it starts to rattle, and under 20 a second you hear separate clicks.
write your own in noteistack one more every-other note on top of a triad and it becomes a seventh chord, so C E G turns into Cmaj7. add every seventh and the plain Dm G C turns into Dm7 G7 Cmaj7.
write your own in noteithe minor 2nd, major 7th, major 2nd, minor 7th and tritone clash. the 3rds, 6ths, 4th and 5th blend, and the octave is the sweetest of all.
write your own in noteifour rhythms at 5:6:7:9, sped up 256 times, fuse into four pitches, B, D, F and A. that is a half-diminished seventh chord.
write your own in noteieach ball has its own note in C major pentatonic, and every collision plays the balls that swing out. a ball joins every few swings, until 14 swing in and 14 swing out: two 14-note chords.
write your own in noteithe balls start as C, E and G, and each new ball is the next pentatonic note up. in the hexagon all seven sound at once as one chord, C6/9.
write your own in noteievery grain that slips through the neck plays the next note of D major pentatonic. once the last of 38 grains is through, a D6/9 chord rings under the final note.
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