Partch Instruments
Partch is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Harry Partch (1901–1974), American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments, uncle of Virgil Partch *Virgil Partch (1916–1984), American cartoonist See also * Patch (other)#People *Pertsch Pertsch is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Jennifer Pertsch, Canadian media writer *Matteo Pertsch Matteo Pertsch (; 1769–1834) was an Austrian classical architect best known for designing a number of structures in Tries ...

Harry Partch
Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales, alongside Lou Harrison. He built custom-made instruments in these tunings on which to play his compositions, and described the method behind his theory and practice in his book '' Genesis of a Music'' (1947). Partch composed with scales dividing the octave into 43 unequal tones derived from the natural harmonic series; these scales allowed for more tones of smaller intervals than in standard Western tuning, which uses twelve equal intervals to the octave. To play his music, Partch built many unique instruments, with such names as the Chromelodeon, the Quadrangularis Reversum, and the Zymo-Xyl. Partch described his music as corporeal, and distinguished it from a ...
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Virgil Partch
Virgil Franklin Partch (October 17, 1916 – August 10, 1984), who generally signed his work Vip,Virgil Franklin Partch
at the California Death Index via FamilySearch.org. Retrieved on August 27, 2015. was an American gag cartoonist. His work appeared in magazines of the 1940s and 1950s, and he created the newspaper '''' and ''''. He published 19 books of illustrations and drew art for

Patch (other)
Patch or Patches may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * Patch Johnson, a fictional character from ''Days of Our Lives'' * Patch (''My Little Pony''), a toy * "Patches" (Dickey Lee song), 1962 * "Patches" (Chairmen of the Board song), 1970, also covered by Clarence Carter * Patch (website), an online news service * "Patches", a song by Dala from the album ''Angels & Thieves'' People * Patch Adams (Hunter Adams, born 1945), American physician and clown * Alexander Patch (1889–1945), WWII U.S. Army general * Harry Patch (1898–2009), WWI British veteran * Horace Patch (1814–1862), American politician Places * Patch, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. * Patch, Gwbert, Ceredigion, Wales Science and technology Computing * Patch (computing), changes to a computer program * patch (Unix), a UNIX utility * PATCH (HTTP), an HTTP request to make a change Electronics * Autopatch or phone patch, from radio to telephone * Patch antenna * Patch cable, to connect devices * P ...
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