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Chrysalis
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Photo by Will Gullette |
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A child said
What is the grass?
Poem by Walt Whitman
Music by Cris Forster |
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Cris Forster, Chrysalis
and voice |
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There is that in me
Poem by Walt Whitman
Music by Cris Forster |
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Cris Forster, Chrysalis
and voice |
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Cris Forster (1980) |
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1975–1976, San Francisco, California. |
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Dimensions: |
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Total number of strings: 164. |
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Longest string:
20.0 in. |
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Shortest string:
8.0 in. |
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Wheel diameter:
36 ¾ in. |
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Wheel width: 5.0 in. |
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Height from floor to top of wheel: 57 ½ in. |
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Stand length:
61.0 in. |
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Stand width: 10 ½ in. |
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Materials: |
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Sitka spruce, oak, ash, maple, birch, |
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ebony, aluminum, brass, and steel. |
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Range: |
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Left Side:
F# above middle C to B above high C. |
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Right Side: B below middle C to F# above high C. |
The Chrysalis, my first concert-sized instrument, was inspired by a huge, round,
stone-hewn Aztec calendar. I asked
myself, “What if there were a musical instrument in the shape of a wheel? And what if this wheel had strings for
spokes, could spin, and when played, would sound like the wind?”
The Chrysalis has two sides, or two circular soundboards, and 82 strings on
each side. The wheel, which sits on the crest of a wave-like stand, may be freely spun in either
direction.
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Dear Reader,
Since July 2002, more than 250,000 visitors have logged on to
www.chrysalis-foundation.org. Your interest has encouraged us to plan a
self-publication of Cris Forster's manuscript Musical Mathematics: A
Practice in the Mathematics of Tuning Instruments and Analyzing Scales.
To accomplish this task, we will be applying to organizations and individuals
for grants. Our goal is to publish a complete and unabridged first edition of 500 copies, with a retail
cost of $90.00 per book. If you would like more information on
Mr. Forster's 1300-page manuscript, please visit
our
Musical
Mathematics page,
which shows the Table of Contents of this work.
If you would like to see Musical Mathematics in print,
please write to us so that we may include your emails and letters in our grant
applications. Kindly let us know whether you are a musician,
student, teacher, professor, instrument builder, etc., and indicate any
institutional affiliations you may have. Your name and email address
will only appear in confidential grant applications. We will honor
anyone's wish to remain anonymous.
Please send your email to:
info@chrysalis-foundation.org
or send your letter to:
The Chrysalis Foundation
1459 18th Street, PMB #137
San Francisco, CA 94107
Thank you for your interest and support of the Chrysalis
Foundation book publication project.
The Board of Directors
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