what about this that has nothing to do with CS?
http://www.ksanti.net/free-reed/history/sho.html

am not sure but i remember somebody telling me that
it's tuned non et but somethang based on 3/2
and i think some notes cannot be played together
because of the physical structure it has

On 12/3/07, Tim Mortimer <timmortimer@d2.net.au> wrote:
> * what tones does it produce (& are harmonics used to get really the really
> high pitches? up to 60k i read somewhere...)
> * what chordal combinations of them can be played
> * how do they get such cool sounding "crossfades" happening? (maybe there
> are 2 players sharing chords in sucession & crossfading over each other?)
>
> I'm not so interested in the tonal colour per-se just yet. Like most of my
> designs, i basically try & implement the "mechanics" of the process with a
> simple solitary sine wave synth (which i think will suit the "clustered"
> sound anyway..) & then playback samples or more dynamic synthesis options
> from there....
>
> Spent about the last 30 minutes with google on this but to no avail. I know
> this will be an interest & influence for many of you, & so I welcome any
> comments or guidance or example code.

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