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*''spúith'' = plucked string instrument with sympathetic strings
*''spúith'' = plucked string instrument with sympathetic strings
*''ŋamsaí'' (from Netagin) = a bowed string instrument used for melodic lines
*''ŋamsaí'' (from Netagin) = a bowed string instrument used for melodic lines
*''ŋamas'' = a ''ŋamsaí'' that's ~1.5 octaves lower
*''ŋamas'' = a ''ŋamsaí'' that's 1 octave lower
*''miftól'' = a reed instrument with adjustable slide
*''miftól'' = a reed instrument with adjustable slide
Need more Netagin instruments
Need more Netagin instruments
====Tuning systems====
====Tuning systems====
Older music uses JI scales (tonality diamonds) and some temperaments (mostly as approximations to JI; mostly also a "more prototypical" temperament like say 22edo). Scúdhainn (~ 200 years BP) defined the concept of linear temperaments and was the first to use some rank-2 temperaments in her musical œuvre. (Matrices were known by then!)
Older music uses JI scales (tonality diamonds) and some temperaments (mostly as approximations to JI; mostly also a "more prototypical" temperament like say 22edo). Scúdhainn (~ 200 years BP) defined the concept of linear temperaments and was the first to use some rank-2 temperaments in her musical œuvre. (Matrices were known by then!)