Marimba on Steroids
The American composer and inventor Harry Partch (1901-1974) had lots of unusual ideas. Dissatisfied with the sounds that Western music could offer, he became interested in exotic scales that made use of the microtones lying between standard notes. Eventually, he came up with new scales, which divided an octave into 43 notes instead of the 12 that most of us know best.
Because few instruments could play the music he wrote using these scales, Partch decided to build his own. The
