It turned out to be quite practical to take two transistorized electronic organs and put Helmholtz's scheme on them and it worked about as the claim made in the well-known Sensations of Tone book for it. Maybe a little better than Helmholtz's original, harmonium since harmoniums are notoriously slow in attack and of course, so are American reed-organs, their nearest counterpart in this country. The electronic organs now available are usually much quicker in attack than the free-reed instruments. Certain Generalized designs will arrive soon because they have been the subject of much planning and thinking. But we have been so intimidated by socalled Authorities and Experts for a whole Century that progress in music and the very idea of really new things for Composers to Do, has suffered almost mortally.
Patience is no longer a virtue.
Hence our constructing some Just Arrays and Meantone and Equal and Unequal-Temperament affairs with MORE than 12 pitches per octave so that they can be and have been actualized in sound recordings. Yet many of these same persons offer a crippled just instrument with only 12 pitches per octave and thus compulsory Wolves, whereas many of these skhisma and septimal compromises would never be heard at any conceivable performance place.