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Maverick composer a master of the microtone

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From the Salt Lake Tribune:

Avant-garde composer Harry Partch dreamed of music so unusual and complex that it couldn’t be produced by existing instruments. So he invented an orchestra-full of bizarre instruments capable of splintering the musical octave into tiny fractions of sound.

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