The noses of camels

[Richard Moody]

" this will include a
> real-live steinway piano tuned to the following 7-limit scale:
> 1/1	8/7	5/4	4/3	3/2	8/5	7/4"



Hmm  I wonder if he is cagey enough to ask for a 5/12 discount off
tuning?Then I wonder why he wasn't content with striaight from the horses
mouth?  
1/1     9/8         5/4        4/3       3/2        5/3        15/8     

Ed...How does "noses of camels" figure? 

rm


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> From: A440A <A440A@aol.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: The noses of camels
> Date: Friday, May 01, 1998 1:11 PM
> 
> Greetings all, 
>      The slow diaspora away from equal temperament continues.  This was
posted
> on the "Tuning" list, and I thought that any of you who may be in the
area of
> Mills College would find this interesting.  It IS the wave of the future
in
> piano intonation. 
> Regards, 
> Ed Foote
> 
> From: "Flynn M. Cohen" <flynn@mills.edu>
> Dear friends 
> 
> my m.a. thesis concert will be held on sunday may 3rd @ 7.45pm in the
> mills college concert hall (oakland, california). this will include a
> real-live steinway piano tuned to the following 7-limit scale:
> 1/1	8/7	5/4	4/3	3/2	8/5	7/4
> 
> as well as an extended piece for voices and strings in a harmonic-series
> based piece inspired by a story of franz kafka.
> 
> write to me if you'd like more info and/or directions to mills.
> 
> -flynn