et al; At the risk of throwing logical thought to the winds now that Conrad has brought bowling into the conversation, allow me to make the following observation on spheres. In action geometry there is a correlation of the five circles of movement, each with an optimum placement on any given action and if you were to arrange these circles together on a common pole you would have..ta dah....... a sphere !, or at least a circle of fifths! To carry this hypothesis further and investigate the celestial harmonic of this sphere, thus formed, one could multiply the five circles of movement of each key by the number of keys on a piano. This exercise would give you 5 X 88. Well using old math I came up with 5 X 88 = 440........how interesting huh? So one could postulate that 440 is the celestial, or natural, harmonic for the piano....could one not? Of course Ralph probably has already figured this out while the wind was blowing up his skirt... :-) Jim Bryant (FL) "one who considers oneself indespensable should consider the hole left when one removes one's finger from the water." Faintly Dull (ed. note...probably stolen)
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