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Interval Journal
Innovators
Microtonal History
- Letters between Ivor Darreg and Erv Wilson
- Microtonal Instrument Gallery
Resources
- TonalSoft® Microtonal Music Encyclopedia
- Sonic Arts Gallery

Interval Journal
Innovators
Microtonal History
- Letters between Ivor Darreg and Erv Wilson
- Microtonal Instrument Gallery
Resources
- TonalSoft® Microtonal Music Encyclopedia
- Sonic Arts Gallery

Instrument Gallery

Harry Partch, Boo II, Bamboo Marimbas

Harry Partch, Boo II, Bamboo Marimbas

Harry Partch, Boo II, Bamboo Marimbas

Denny Genovese playing Partch’s Cloud Chamber Bowls

Erv Wilson’s Hebdomakontany Xylophone | Photographer unknown

Black and white image of the Amplifying Harmonic Canon — Kimball, Buzz. Amplifying Harmonic Canon.

Photograph of Buzz Kimball's amplifying harmonic cannon with 53 strings and 3 pickups — Amplifying Harmonic Cannon with 53 strings and 3 pickups, designed and built by Buzz Kimball.

Technical drawing or photograph of the Polychord II, a steel guitar with interchangeable fretboards for alternative tuning systems. — The Polychord II, an experimental steel guitar designed by Buzz Kimball with interchangeable fretboards for exploring alternative tuning systems.

Photograph of Buzz Kimball's Novosonics invented musical instruments — Buzz Kimball’s Novosonics instruments

Scanned page showing technical diagram or documentation of Novosonics invented instruments by Buzz Kimball. — Documentation of Buzz Kimball’s Novosonics invented musical instruments.

Photograph of Buzz Kimball's Novosonics invented musical instruments, detail view 02. — Documentation of Buzz Kimball’s Novosonics microtonal instruments

Scan of photos of instruments by Buzz Kimball — Scan of photos of instruments by Buzz Kimball, from Building a Microtonal Orchestra. Interval, Winter 1982/1983

Photograph of Buzz Kimball's Novosonics musical instruments from 1988 — Documentation of Buzz Kimball’s Novosonics invented musical instruments, 1988.

Sheet of Buzz Kimball's Novosonics string instruments, including Novoharp and Harmonic Kannon designs. — Promotional material for Buzz Kimball’s Novosonics instrument line, featuring electro-acoustic string instruments designed by the inventor.

Bill Wesley and Jonathan Glasier performing with Array Mbiras

Bill Wesley and Jonathan Glasier performing with Array Mbiras

Bill Wesley and Jonathan Glasier playing Array Mbiras

Bill Wesley playing mbira at Futureworld, 1989.

Bill Wesley playing an Array Psaltry, microtonal stringed instrument. — Bill Wesley with Array Psaltry.

Guitar fretboard with multiple tuning systems marked: temperament, meantone, Bach, Werkmeister, quarter-tone. — Walter Vogt. Fine tunable fretboard displaying meantone, Bach, Werkmeister, and 24-TET tuning systems. Tuned with Wittner TM tuner.

Maromba Eroica instrument or composition by D. Genovese — D. Genovese. Maromba Eroica.

Photograph of Tillman Schafer's UNDEVIGINTIVOX, a 19 equal division of the octave chime instrument. — Tillman Schafer. UNDEVIGINTIVOX (19 EDO chime). Ivor Darreg collection.

An archive of the microtonal music journal INTERVAL and information by and about microtonal musicians

Interval Journal
Innovators
Microtonal History
- Letters between Ivor Darreg and Erv Wilson
- Microtonal Instrument Gallery
Resources
- TonalSoft® Microtonal Music Encyclopedia
- Sonic Arts Gallery

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