Grin... With all respect to Bernard, this ought to be very interesting to see in practice. One is off course free to go through any patent process one wants, but I cant see anyone making money on such an adventure. In anycase, P12ths tunings of various sorts have been practiced and publicized in various forums now for at least 5 years, and I have seen articles talking about P12ths tuning concepts back as far as 20years ago by more then one source. 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 ??? How on earth is anyone ever going to enforce such a thing, even if the idea was worth patenting in the first place ? What tuner in his/her right mind will pay another tuner for the rights to use some bearing plan ? Good for the days humour tho :) Cheers RicB In a message dated 4/13/05 10:54:34 AM, b98tu@t-online.de <mailto:b98tu@t-online.de> writes: >/ The OnlyPure method is patent pending and registered as mark and will be />/ licensed to professional tuners and instrument makers which will benefit />/ from marketing this revolutionary tuning concept./
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