In a message dated 98-07-04 01:20:34 EDT, you write: << bout a half step apart. I have heard this effect associated with an auditory neuroma (a growth or swelling on the auditory nerve). >> This is perhaps why Charles Ives wrote some of the piano pieces he did-using pianos tuned a quarter-tone apart and some Orchestral music with one half of the orchestra in one key and the other half in another. Opens new doors for musicologists. Try listening to his Fourth of July or his 4th Symphony, oh yee disbelievers. Bob Bergantino,RPT South Euclid, Ohio
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