To blend two discussions together - When we were talking about PTG selling mailing lists, it seemed I remembered a lot of us getting a mailer from the guy who wrote the book on "perfect fifth" tuning. I wondered aloud why the guild would provide a list to such a guy (which, apparently, they did not). Another member of our chapter put it best. "It's not my problem that he never heard of Pythagoras!" Dave Stocker, RPT firtree@aol.com Tumwater, WA << But there is a hidden flaw in that system when you try to tune each fundamental to its theoratical value. It doesn't take into account the inharmonicity. Perfect fifths are stretched fifths which means over stretched octaves and major thirds that almost beat like minor thirds. I think there is no way out for this interesting but unapplicable system. Michel Lachance, RPT >>
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