Was OnlyPure not P12ths Tunings

Michael Gamble michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk
Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:03:42 +0100


Hello Bernhard
What, precisely, is P12? Is it M12 (major 12th) or pure 12ths? Interesting 
possibilities here. I tune using M3 and listen to the beat gradually getting 
slower as I go down the keyboard. In fact I use the M3 as a "tool" and back 
up my findings with M10 (towards the bass end) and M15 and M17 towards the 
treble end.
Regards
Michael G.(UK)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernhard Stopper" <b98tu@t-online.de>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: Was OnlyPure not P12ths Tunings


> William, Ric,
>
> same people who giggledd and laughed about the P12 approach when i came up 
> with it in 1988 say today "that´s how i have done all the time..."
>
> very interesting that especially P12 tuners have such problems in 
> accepting when there is an important discovery (the fractal symmetry of 
> beat ratios to frequency ratios in the P12 ET allowing the new pure 
> interval method) on their own subject.
>
> kind regards,
>
> Bernhard
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "William Ballard" <yardbird@vermontel.net>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Cc: <hr@hirammusselmanlaw.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 12:32 PM
> Subject: Re: P 12ths Tunings
>
>
>> At 9:05 AM +0100 4/14/05, Ric Brekne wrote:
>>>Me thinks Bernard missed his chance to patent this idea  when he first 
>>>wrote about this some 20 years ago. Even so... patenting a tuning method 
>>>???
>>
>> The principle of U.S. patent law is that an idea cannot be patented, but 
>> its implementation can. Although this hasn't prevented large corporations 
>> like Monsanto from copyrighting the DNA of rice and by extension, all 
>> descendants (further elaborations) of it.
>>
>> So I'm patenting my pattern for the temperament based not the particular 
>> width of an octave therein but on a P12th. Gonna brand it the Sonaeus. 
>> And sit back and wait for the royalties to arrive in my numbered Swiss 
>> bank account.
>>
>>
>>
>> (.....giggle)
>>
>> Mr. Bill
>>
>> "A jester unemployed is nobody's fool."
>>     ...........Danny Kaye, in "The Court Jester"
>> +++++++++++++++++++++
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