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Record W2030425321 · doi:10.1121/1.4743472

The Burmese harp: Its scale and tunings

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Robert M. Williamson

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicDiverse Musicological Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHARPBurmeseScale (ratio)Quarter (Canadian coin)ArtHistoryGeographyArt historyCartographyArchaeologyLinguisticsPhilosophy

Abstract

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The 16 strings of the Burmese horizontal, arched harp are tuned in pentatonic octaves over a range of two-and-a-half octaves. A brief description of the harp, its history, and examples of its classical music will precede a discussion of the results of pitch measurements of harp tones recorded in Mandalay in the mid-20th century of the late Muriel C. Williamson [The Burmese Harp (Southeast Asia Press, DeKalb, IL, 2000)]. Prior to about 1960, the seven-tone Burmese harp scale could be accurately described by the notes CDE*( E ) F G A *( A ) B*, where the starred notes were about a quarter tone (50 cents) lower than the corresponding Western notes. The pitches of the notes E* and A* could be varied when they occurred as stopped tones of the harp. The distinctive Burmese notes became Western within a few decades. The remarkably precise tunings of master harpists sometimes showed octaves stretched by about 15 cents. Previous measurements of Burmese fixed-pitch instruments show them to have had somewhat tempered version of the harp scale. a)Present address: 1189 Pond Cypress Drive, Virginia Beach, VA 23455.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.319
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.003
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.223
Teacher spread0.189 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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