Greetings, On occasion, while surfing, I find bits of academic algae stuck to my board,and this has been hanging around long enough, food for thought, or fishes.., Regards, Ed Foote >From the tuning list: On a more serious note about Pythagoras. The 81/64 third is obviously further 'up the series' than 5/4 but in some ways it's closer than at first thought possible, via the pentatonic scale: The corresponding minor third: small by one comma: 6/5 * 80/81 = 2/1 * 16/27 = 32/27 (ol 294cents). This sounds quite interesting in a pentatonic. (Try the classic oscillating minor third, like a child's 'see saw dickory daw', 'I'm the king of the castle', or many other playground chants. (The minor third is the first interval a child can recognise and sing). The 294cent third is quite tense. See Bartok articles on folk music for discussion of this property. (Oh and Lendvai - whose theories I am sure are not a function of the twelve-tone scale, but rather the mean-tone one).
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