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cheese_greater@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca · 8 days ago

What instruments have ranges equal to or greater than piano (88 keys/frequencies?)

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What instruments have ranges equal to or greater than piano (88 keys/frequencies?)

cheese_greater@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca · 8 days ago
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    7 days ago

    Synthesizer

  • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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    There are no stupid questions but we can still make the question more smart and precise. The range would be measured in octaves (ie frequency doublings) and 88 12-EDO steps is 7 1/3 octaves. If you were to go by number of pitches, then inherently microtonal instruments like the guitar, trombone and kazoo have an effectively infinite number of playable pitches within their limited range.

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      Same with any continuous instrument. The violin family, fretless basses and guitars, trombones, the human voice, theremins, the Haken Continuum, etc.

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    Some organs extend the piano range:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boardwalk_Hall_Auditorium_Organ#Diaphone-Dulzian

    This one goes down to C-1.

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    I know next to nothing about musical instruments but I will volunteer a guess: a harp?

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
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      Yess

  • Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip
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    Most electric guitars have 24 frets

    With 6 strings, we get 144 frets, up to 192 on an 8-string.

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      Doesn’t work like that though. Many notes are the same.

      E.g. standard tuning 5th fret on the low E(1st string) is the same as open A (2nd string)

      Works for the other strings as well, so it’s more like 24 + 5 * 5 ? Or something along the lines, haven’t thought it through…

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        Ah, yeah, good point. I failed to consider same notes in the same octave.

        • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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          You can tune the low string extra low, the high string extra high, and you can bend the fuck out of the highest note, to get maybe an extra octave

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