Glommish/Musical system

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Instruments

þe térem = string instrument (from Türiŋit täärm)

þe kátérem = guqin (← kaa-täärm 'ancient string instrument')

þe júskion = dulcimer (← jüüskön)

þí klársiach = harp (← cláirseach)

þe kinnór = lyre (← cinnowr)

þe piengeng (térem) = bowed string instrument (← peŋ-eŋ (bow-COMITATIVE))

þe siópiengeng = violin (← söö-peŋeŋ 'small bowed')

þe latspiengeng = cello (← lats-peŋeŋ 'large bowed')

þe lúg (← luug), þí fiadóg (← feadóg) = (two kinds of) flute

þí szavúrtéreme = broken instruments

Tuning

13th century

15th century

17th century

There are three kinds of systems:

1) Two eleven-limit diamonds spaced a perfect fifth apart, or two (1...13)x(1...1/7) diamonds spaced a perfect fifth apart

2) A cross set (1...15)x(1...15)

3) An Euler-Fokker genus 3⁴x5²x7²

19th century (popular)

European Theory

  • Babylonians independently discover pythagorean tuning and Greeks extend it into genera
  • poly-pythagorean chains introduced by Jewish theorists to explain the enharmonic genus