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| == Adapted Viola, Adapted Guitar I, Adapted Guitar II, Adapted Guitar III == | == Adapted Viola, Adapted Guitar I, Adapted Guitar II, Adapted Guitar III == | ||
| - | Adapted Viola(Monophone) | + | Adapted Viola (also called a Monophone) |
| - | Adapted Guitar I 1934 \\ | + | Made from a cello neck attached to a viola and built by violin maker Edwin Bentin |
| - | Adapted Guitar II before 1945 \\ | + | |
| - | ==Chromatic Organ== | + | Adapted Guitar I 1934-1942 \\ |
| - | Built in 1934 | + | In just intonation, the guitar has high stainless steel frets that were attached to a brass plate that sits on the fretboard. \\ |
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| + | Adapted Guitar II 1945 \\ | ||
| + | This version had small pin added to the fretboard that were smoothed down to make the instrument nearly fretless. The instrument has additional strings added and the fingerboard widened to fit a total of 10 strings. Had an embedded microphone to allow the instrument to be amplified. | ||
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| + | Adapted Guitar III~1945 \\ | ||
| + | Same instrument as Adapted Guitar 1 but the frets were removed and marking made instead and the instrument was played using a stainless steel rod that was slide to different positions, similar to the Kithara. \\ | ||
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| + | ==Chromatic Organ (Ptolemy)== | ||
| + | Built in 1934, considered a failure by Partch due to insufficient building skills and technical skills to make the instrument work. Was a reed organ like the Chromelodeon but used a typewriter style keyboard. Diagrams and description are in only early editions of Genesis of a Music. | ||
| == Kithara I & II == | == Kithara I & II == | ||
| - | Kithara I was built 1938 \\ | + | Kithara I was built 1938 and continuously modified until 1959. The instrument has 72 string divided into 12 series of 6 strings. The instrument is large, harp shaped and is played using pyrex glass rods that are moved against the strings to shift their pitch. Only the top halves of each string are exposed and the string continue vertically into the bass of the instrument where they connect to the soundboard. The design is inspired by the ancient Greek Kithara, which is also harp shaped and has vertical strings, in this case each string has been replaced with a bank of strings. |
| - | Kithara II was built 1954 \\ | + | |
| + | New Kithara I is a duplicate of Kithara I built in Encinitas, CA in 1972 but with some minor improvements in the frame and structure of the instrument. Strings sections that were previously inside the resonating chamber are now exposed to allow further percussive use of the strings. Partch considers the sound profile of this instrument to be superior to the prior one and essential for newer parts he wrote that require the strings exposed for the percussive elements. | ||
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| + | Kithara II was built 1954 in Sausalito, CA after Partch attempted to retune the Kithara I and found the new tuning to be lacking in bass. He constructed Kithara II to accommodate the new bass heavy tuning and returned Kithara I to its original tuning. The Kithara instrument are very large and place players on a riser where they can easily be seen. Partch considers the choreography of players moving while playing to be a kind of embodied dance.\\ | ||
| == Chromelodeons == | == Chromelodeons == | ||
| - | Chromelodeon I was built in 1942-1945 | + | Chromelodeon I was built in 1942-1945 |
| - | Chromelodeon II was built in 1959 and an 88-key pump organ.\\ | + | |
| + | Old Chromelodeon II, built in 1946 at the University of Wisconsin and abandoned in 1949. The reeds and sub bass section from this instrument were removed and installed in Chromelodeon I in 1949 \\ | ||
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| + | Chromelodeon II was built in 1959 from an 88-key pump organ that Partch was gifted in 1950. All 244 reeds were retuned to various degrees. The instrument retained its 5 stops which were renamed to Z, A-Left, 12, X, A-Right. Each of the stops have fractured ranges that only partially overlap but allow for the instrument to play a much larger overall range than the Chromelodeon I.\\ | ||
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| == Harmonic Canon I, II & III== | == Harmonic Canon I, II & III== | ||
| - | Harmonic Canon I was built 1945 \\ | + | Harmonic Canon I was built 1945 at the University of Wisconsin and heavily modified between 1953 and 1959 at the University of Illinois. The instrument originally had 44 strings and was doubled to have 88 divided into 5 and a half banks. 5 sets of 16 plus one of 8. The strings are tunable using tuners at the ends or by the additional of small bridges that can be positioned under the strings at any point. |
| - | New Harmonic Canon I was built as a copy of Canon I to allow for an alternative tuning so that the original would not need to be retuned mid performance \\ | + | |
| - | Harmonic Canon II called " | + | New Harmonic Canon I was built as a copy of Harmonic |
| - | Harmonic Canon III called "Blue Rainbow" | + | |
| + | Harmonic Canon II, also called " | ||
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| + | Harmonic Canon III called "Blue Rainbow" | ||
| == Diamond Marimba == | == Diamond Marimba == | ||
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| == Surrogate Kithara == | == Surrogate Kithara == | ||
| - | The Surrogate Kithara was built 1953 \\ | + | The Surrogate Kithara was built in Sausalito, CA in 1953 to aid in dividing up some Kithara parts that were too difficult to play. The instrument has two banks of 8 strings each (compared to the 12 banks of 6 strings on the Kitharas) and is played horizontally in a seated position. |
| == Marimba Eroica == | == Marimba Eroica == | ||
| - | Built 1954 | + | {{youtube> |
| + | Originally | ||
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| + | Image of Chris Banta in front of the Marimba Eroica Copy that he built for the Partch Ensemble. | ||
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| + | " | ||
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| + | Chris Banta has detailed diagrams for how to construct his copy of the original instrument ((https:// | ||
| == Boo I & II (Bamboo Marimba) == | == Boo I & II (Bamboo Marimba) == | ||
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| ==Crychord== | ==Crychord== | ||
| - | Built in 1959 by an unknown student of industrial design at the University of Illinois | + | Built in 1959 by an unknown student of industrial design at the University of Illinois |
| == Zymo-Xyl == | == Zymo-Xyl == | ||
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| ==Koto== | ==Koto== | ||
| - | A modefied | + | A modified |
| ==Garden of Eden== | ==Garden of Eden== | ||
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| ==Bloboy== | ==Bloboy== | ||
| - | A " | + | A " |
| ====Makers Influenced by Partch ==== | ====Makers Influenced by Partch ==== | ||
| [[Dean Drummond]] was Partch' | [[Dean Drummond]] was Partch' | ||
| - | [[Dylan Crismani]]- Is a builder working on a new Partch style ensemble in Australia. \\ | + | [[Dylan Crismani]]- Is a builder working on a new Partch style ensemble in Australia. |
| ====Notes==== | ====Notes==== | ||
