Bohlen-Pierce “Love Song“ by Elaine Walker

Hear the album: I composed “Love Song“ in 2007 in the Bohlen-Pierce Scale. I built these two keyboards especially for this performance at the Bohlen-Pierce Symposium, March 8, 2010. The keyboard I’m playing is a rearranged Roland A-30, and Dan is playing a Korg Poly800 with keys that I specially ordered, sawed, sanded and rearranged. I’ll post videos on the making of these keyboards at some point. The hexagon keyboard (Called a “sonome“) is the same one that is in my video series on rearranging the keys for the Bohlen-Pierce Scale. I had a deal with C-Thru-Music to keep the keyboard for a while, then give it to Dr. Boulanger of Berklee College of Music. “Dr. B“ is performing on it here! “Love Song“ was an experiment, to see if I could compose a song in the Bohlen-Pierce Scale in such a way that the listener wouldn’t notice anything strange about the tuning. To do this, I used more organ