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You can now play these microtonal scales on a keyboard.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2024

Her work is a duet between traditions, where classically notated orchestral and chamber ensembles dance with improvised, microtonal Hindustani vocals, sitars and violins.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2023

Might this colossal voice spend her near-future paying closer attention to the strangeness of existence and all of the microtonal emotions that go with it?

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2021

Finneas: There's a sort of microtonal slide at the beginning of the song.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2021

As of this writing, the Huygens-Fokker Foundation92 was a good place to start looking for information on microtonal music.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones