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Shows nothing but a blank screen on an older iPad.
I knew a musician who once clicked on a "ring for customer service" bell at the service counter of a laundromat, and then told the arriving attendant "Your bell is a quarter-tone flat."
Stuff like that always bugs me because since it's not immediately verifiable it just feels like flexing for no reason
But what if it was designed to be a quarter tone flat by another flexing musician?
or what if it's 2 full tones and one quarter semitone flat? that's what I'm saying the dude flexing his perfect pitch doesn't know what the original intent was. Maybe that brand of bell is well known for that specific microtonal pitch
Showing off their ear for detail in a way
An a similar but also not similar note, today in the morning I and chatgpt tried to create a new kind of musical instrument

https://franzelio.franzai.com/

sadly no uptick on HN

After three lines and probably 15 balls it started screeching at me.
I'm going to bug report something very strange: once I started trying to make music with your instrument, _both_ of my dogs reacted with serious concern for me. I don't know what they heard in your samples, but something that made them worry. You should test with more dogs. ;)
Obligatory reference to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's album "Flying Microtonal Banana"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Microtonal_Banana

Excerpt: "the album is recorded in quarter tone tuning, where an octave is divided into 24 (logarithmically) equal-distanced quarter tones; it was originally conceived to play on a baglama, so the band members used instruments specifically modified for microtonal tuning, as well as other Middle-Eastern instruments like the zurna."

Billabong Valley live at KEXP: https://youtu.be/bvtF2Ie90m0

How is the pitch determined? It would make sense if it was based on line length, but that doesn't seem to be it.
No 19edo? I think with 24edo it's the only scheme that could outplay 12.
Doesn't seem to work on iOS 17.6.1 (can't hear anything when I press a key).
> Can you hear the difference?

I can't. Is there an example that makes it clearer?