Brad and Mike: I deduced a scale whose twelve major thirds are 1,25 but the number of perfect fifths diminished to four: C major, Mi major, Fa major and A...
... No, it sounds awful. "Octaves" of 125/64 (1159 cents) might sound fine in some gamelans, but for Western music they're just plain out of tune (and badly). ...
... May I chime in ? Could you list the intervals? If I understand you correctly, there should be 12 major thirds of ~386.314 cents. If so, then the octaves...
Petr ParĂzek
p.parizek@...
Oct 1, 2008 8:26 pm
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Petr, Here are the tones and intervals in blue. C --- 1 x (16/15)= 1,06666666 C # --- 1,06666... x Square root of(9/8)=1,06066017178 D --- 8/[5 (Square...
1 1083/1024 323/288 19/16 171/136 171/128 361/256 6137/4096 3249/2048 29241/17408 57/32 61731/32768 looks unpleasant doesn't it... because C is 'out on a limb'...
Eudora reveals that I posted this to the list in on Nov 21st, 1998. Don't know why the web-based search didn't find it. Probably the apostrophe-s on the end ...
... ...Not only that, the scale is symmetrical under inversion. The circle of fifths has tempering (a,b,c,b,a,b,1,1,b,1,1,b) where a=6137/6144, b=512/513,...
The equal tempered scale should be modified to agree with the natural and perfect consonances F = (4/3) = 1,3333... and G = (3/2) = 1,5 that were known a long...
A belated Eid mubarak wasa'id and Rosh haShanah tovah if you've celebrated either... I'm in the process of rediscovering the soundtrack for last year's _There...
... Dear Mario & all others, ... Ther's something wrong with yours counting: because the number of 5ths and 4ths must be equal the same. Hence: 11 pure 5ths of...
http://www.patmissin.com/tunings/audio.html Fairly stunning I think... and there is an interesting point at http://www.patmissin.com/tunings/tun1.html why JI...
Just to let all you know, The Prince Myshkins are playing tonight at 8 in the recital hall at evergreen for free! They are a folk/comedy 2 man band. I saw them...
A late comment: ... Ah, but here is the critical bit of information not previously given: Urmavi explains a tetrachord that also he names "the first single ...
... 8 in the recital hall at evergreen for free! They are a folk/comedy 2 man band. I saw them two years ago and they were really great, and I recommend you...
... Hi Carl, Tom & all others, yours ... 19,17,3 approachs work similar as my older attempts in: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/clavichord/message/8737 ....
http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylv=3?qid=20081001120627AAoFh8a "I heard a slowish piece of classical or quasi-classical music for two piano-s in...
There was the Nobel Prize in physics today, and I'm going to apply aspects of it to circulating temperaments! The theme is spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB)....
I went ahead and bought it - very good!! Thanks! If anyone here wants a -listen- not a copy, I have it on my winamp remote server. email me and I'll let you...
... Great work. But you don't have to spare us the details. Let 'er rip! It would be helpful for me if you could post the best and worst 3rd and 5th for each...
... Thanks, and some/most/all of the tracks are also uploaded on YouTube (in lower quality, of course). And a correction: it's Jonny Greenwood, not "Johnny";...
Jarrett premiered Lou Harrison's Concerto for piano with selected orchestra, which is in Kirnberger II. Jarrett liked the tuning so much that he kept his own...
Mel's Slay Suspects Sentenced by Steven Mikulan October 7, 2008 1:21 PM Capping a morning of impassioned defense pleas and emotional victim-impact statements,...
... I used an approximation where the Pythagorean commas is 24 cents and syntonic 22. Best and worst major 3rds here (two of each) are 386+{1.3,27.9}. Minor...
Killer of guitarist Rod Poole sentenced Oct. 8, 2008 at 10:48 AM LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- The wife of guitarist Roderick Poole called her husband a...
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