Continuous Pitch Wind Instruments (opens in new tab)

When singing, it often sounds bad to slide between notes. Why is that? Music is rather discrete, rather than continuous— we like notes. But maybe that’s just what we are used to?

I was curious about the name "glissotar" (less self-explanatory than the in-development glissoflute and glissoboe) but it appears to refer to the Hungarian Tárogató https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A1rogat%C3%B3

Here's a playlist of songs composed for glissotar: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHQMlBq9OKeXINkPCOrLy... (found at https://sonus.foundation/en/page/show/call-for-scores-new-pi...)

Introducing the Glissotar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-zFrXYQLk4

10 hours prior on HN: Infinitone Microtonal Saxophone https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40765014

There's also Charlie McMahon's Didjeribone which is very much sans reed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2UqnWU8d8o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRVHYqBUZg0

All bets are off when some mad Celt hooks this up to a bag and some drones.

You'd have to take air out the back end and over the shoulder to connect to the "chanter" at mouth level and have full reach on the instrument.

But the diatonic scale of the traditional highland bagpipe induces an acoustic claustrophobia, and this would be an escape.

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Infinitone Microtonal Saxophone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40765014 - June 2024 (41 comments)