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So.... With us woodwind players, the lower the finger down the instrument the lower the pitch.
Eigenharp is unfortunately the reverse. Fingerings close to your face are lower.
This is very tough for a windplayer to unlearn. So I tried this with a custom user scale.

[inverted chromatic 1]
;wind player chromatic scale
intervals=12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

Hey it worked.......... almost. I flipped the fingering all the way down to the (user) right lowest key.

Last left skipped back up to the notes first right 4 notes........

Anyone got any ideas how to fix this for a true scale inversion with all 16 keys?

Yup, I tried transpose with little sucess...

Eigenlabs? Could you fix this for us Toot-n-Blatt Players? Pretty Please?

Any other tweaks I could make myself?
Thanks very much for 1.09 it's GREAT!
Best- Tefman

Hi tefman,

I think that if you'd use this, it would work:

[inverted chromatic 1]
;wind player chromatic scale
intervals=13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

Let me know how it goes.

Take care,

Geert

thanks Jim & Geert,

I'll try it today.

Man...... I was practicing the old Chicago "color my world changes last night ......man are arpeggio'ed 7 chords a challenge for a newby.
;P

Happy Holidaze -tefman

I tried both scales, they work but not for all 16 keys

I'll try yours today fzzzy ......thanks.

this worked for 16 chromatic scale notes

intervals=0 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9 -10 -11 -12 -13 -14 -15

Working on major scale today........

thanks everybody for the "scale lab" experimentation.

Can't wait for Belcanto.

Best -Tefman

Anyone got major inverted to work on all 16 keys yet?

Tried a bunch of "scale lab"experiments today, nothing worked......

Help!

best -Tefman

have not tried to hack your isometric solution yet fzzy......
but loads of thanks for the chromatic scale..... it's sweet.

Yeah... that seems to be the 17th note bug I mentioned in my post... If you add a garbage 17th note to the scale it fixes both of your examples.

[inverted major]
intervals=26 24 23 21 19 17 16 14 12 11 9 7 5 4 2 0 -1

[inverted major isometric]
intervals=26 24 23 21 12 11 9 7 19 17 16 14 5 4 2 0 -1

I'm loving the inverted scales, it definitely feels more natural to me. Thanks!

just a copy of all the "scale lab" work for folks to use.

copy and make it a text file (.txt) name it UserScales.txt
see FAQ for where to put it. Best -Tefman3d
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[inverted folded chromatic tefman]
;wind player chromatic scale
intervals=0 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9 -10 -11 -12 -13 -14 -15
[inverted isometric chromatic fzzy]
;wind player chromatic scale
intervals=15 14 13 12 7 6 5 4 11 10 9 8 3 2 1 0 -1
[inverted folded chromatic fzzy]
;fzzy method
intervals=15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 -1
[inverted folded major tefman/fzzy]
;windplayer folded major
intervals=26 24 23 21 19 17 16 14 12 11 9 7 5 4 2 0 -1
[inverted isometric major tefman/fzzy]
;windplayer isometric major
intervals=26 24 23 21 12 11 9 7 19 17 16 14 5 4 2 0 -1
[inverted isometric hi D major tefman]
;windplayer isometric major
intervals=24 23 21 19 11 9 7 5 17 16 14 12 4 2 0 -1 -3
[inverted folded hi D note major tefman]
;windplayer folded major
intervals=24 23 21 19 17 16 14 12 11 9 7 5 4 2 0 -1 -3