http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=2578 We of course all understand it, being intellectuals. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:47:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=2578&cpage=1#comment-8993 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:32:22 +0000 http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=2578#comment-8993 Sounds like the 21st century version of the Stockholm “Musikmuseet” http://stockholm.music.museum/, which I (& K) must have attended at about the same time.
This place focuses on folkloristic instruments and music. Drums from all over the world, videos projecting variation on the theme of dancing-while-drumming-with-your-feet (tapdancing, flamenco, gum boot dancing…) and so on. Scrapheap instruments of drainpipes, metal coil and metal junk etc.
To me the most striking was the collection of stringed instruments, variuos harps, violins, lutes etc, hardly any of them tuned chromatically, almost all tuned to some scale. Why is it that we have come to take chromatic instruments as the norm and think of scaled instruments as somehow inferior? I never thought about this before. I do now.

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