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Musical instruments today exhibit a split between old and new. On one side, there are a modest number of canonical forms that have slowly evolved over millennia; they are now extremely familiar and a few can reasonably be labelled “iconic”. However, rather than idealized or even near-optimal designs, they are necessarily the product of compromise between incompatible acoustical and human factors, and therefore invariably imperfect. For some musicians and composers these limitations are a source of creative stimulation (Eno 1996; Strauss 2004), but many more rarely deeply consider their interaction possibilities — good or bad. In either case there may be little to no demand for changes to be made in the design of an individual instrument, let alone to a family of instruments
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Dalgliesh, M. (2016) Unconventional inputs: New/old instruments, design, DIY and disability, eContact! 18(3)
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© 2016 The Authors. Published by Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC). This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence.
The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://econtact.ca/18_3/dalgleish_unconventional.html