#rungus

No, it’s not in a major pentatonic scale. I have no idea why Bornean music always depends on the major pentatonic scale in modern ethnic music. OK, rant aside, basically I found a paper that talks about how zinc kulintangans are made. Oh also these are kulintangans:

Not zinc but whatever.

Anyway, close to the end of the paper were frequencies of the kulintangan set being studied, from highest to lowest (in Hz):

808, 676, 608, 500, 460, 408, 338, 305, 277

Out of curiosity, I decided to pull out this handy tool and convert the frequencies to their closest equivalents on the equal temperament scale (the previous set of numbers but in reverse):

C#4 D#4 E4 G#4 A#4 B4 D#5 E5 G#5

I noticed the D# E G# pattern and assumed C#4 and B4 must refer to the same, uh, note? So I averaged them to a C. C4, C5. There. Now the main scale should look a little bit like this:

C D# E G# A#

which sounds... pretty wonky, really. Then I switched the first note of the scale around and found a nice little scale (to me, at least):

G# A# C D# E

Idi once told me to never cross the boundaries lest you meet the dancing animals lest it be your final hour.

Yet I was a kid, one so hard-headed and stubborn; I wanted to see what was atop I just wanted a peek!

So, one night I ran as fast as I could up the hills to see the forest dancers, to peek at the magical groves!

“Sigh,” a deer went, “you are oh-so-frail and oh-so-young yet you wish to waste your life like this?”

“Well, I don’t know,” I blurted, “I had expectations and they’re fulfilled, but before I go, I have one request, may I join in on your feast?”

“Fine,” a wild boar exclaimed “let the teenager join us in our gay feast of merry-making to mark his arrival and departure!”

Quickly, they pulled on my hands, we twisted and twirled like there’s no tomorrow truly a night that I will remember yet one none else shall know.

Journey into Stupid 294!

Limp Bizkit are still relevent

nib, n. dila do pen

and honestly? referring to this