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on a simple standalone abacus if its too inharmonic the balls are probably no longer on the sticks and off the mechanism
so it does in the case of not being a instrument
and ill have to say if the balls are less balls making it more inharmonic both the input for operating the abacus and the structure of the abacus changes
effecting both performance and computational structure if that can be linked to the state of where the balls are