onlypure tuning

Michael Gamble michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk
Sun, 17 Apr 2005 23:02:57 +0100


Hello Rik B and List
George Orwell had the answer in "Animal Farm" he said: "All people are born 
equal - but some are more equal than others"
Regards
Michael G.(UK)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ric Brekne" <ricbrek@broadpark.no>
To: "pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 9:51 PM
Subject: onlypure tuning


> Big Smile !!
>
> David writes
>
> I don't know any German, but in English we have words to make comparisons. 
> One thing is "good", another "better" then only one can be "best".  There 
> are words that have to have a different form of comparison for example 
> "dead".  There isn't any "deader" or "deadest" it's rather "nearly dead", 
> "more nearly dead" and "dead".  -------
>
> Me thinks you forgot "very dead" and "as dead as it gets", not to mention 
> "it woke up dead" or "born dead"
>
> -------
> This method of comparison also has to be used on the word "equal".  There 
> is "nearly equal" "more nearly equal" and "equal".  The "onlypure" tuning 
> is either equal temperament or it is not. If you can patent "equal" maybe 
> you can patent "dead".
>
> You'll make a fortune!
>
> hehe... He lives in Germany David... not Beverly Hills.
>
>
> dp
>
>
> David M. Porritt
> dporritt@smu.edu <mailto:dporritt@smu.edu>
>
> Cheers
> RicB
> 



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