This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment RE: Was OnlyPure not P12ths TuningsThe first publication about the P12 = tuning was my article in 3/1988 in the euro piano. The ominous article from the seventies Ric talked about was never = prooved. Me seems possible he mangled some years and is referring to my = article of the euro piano. This article was originally in german, and = translated into english, french, danish, italy herein. But this is not the fact. again: what i claim as new is the new method by using the pure 3-note interval = combinations of octave and fifth to reach the P12 tuning, not the P12 = tuning itself or any of the existing P12 approaches. regards, Bernhard ----- Original Message -----=20 From: William Ballard=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 3:00 AM Subject: RE: Was OnlyPure not P12ths Tunings At 6:17 PM -0500 4/14/05, Porritt, David wrote: The difference between the 12th root of 2, and the 19th root of 3 is = 0.00006297038. That's not a difference I can aurally detect. That's before modulating this ratio by the actual landscape of = inharmonicity on a given piano. At 12:42 AM +0100 4/15/05, Ric Brekne wrote: I've heard Bill Ballard talk about an article or column he wrote in = the journal some 20 years back or so, and I've seen another column on = the matter from the 70's I believe. "The 3:1 Octave" back sometime in '93, a technique I'd stumbled on in = '88. The list may remember that we went over the Prior Art of this = business once already, last September. At 6:02 PM -0700 4/14/05, Joe Garrett wrote: What you are proposing to "market", is already available from Jim = Coleman Sr. for free! He's already done it. Joe, just for historical purposes, which of the many tuning schemes = Jim has handed out over the years, are you referring to? And of course, = Bernhard has only given us a rough sketch of the aural version of his = temperament. Bill Ballard RPT NH Chapter, P.T.G. ".......true more in general than specifically" ...........Lenny Bruce, spoofing a radio discussion of the Hebrew = roots of Calypso music +++++++++++++++++++++ ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/8b/b0/32/d2/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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