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