onlypure tuning

[Bernhard Stopper]

David,

You mangle art with patents.  With a patent you cannot protect artwork, but 
a method you can.

Besides that, art is not a public domain at all, as you want to make believe 
here.
For example you may play every music you want for your own purpose. But if 
you sell music, where other people have copyrights on, this is not free at 
all.

Same as for patents. You may use all patent related methods for private use 
for free, as long you do net sell them.
What i file for patent is an explicit method i found as new. If one wants to 
raise objection at a patent process because he believes that he found that 
same method before, he must prove that he made it available to the public 
before the patent filing.

regards,

Bernhard


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Renaud" <drjazzca@yahoo.ca>
To: <Pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 12:46 AM
Subject: re: onlypure tuning


>I feel compelled to respond to this thread.
>
>  I love experimenting with tuning methods. Often
> trying(for better or worse) new things; playing with
> many techniques including ghosting, difference tones,
> 3,4 and 5 note combinations using the sostenuto pedal,
> to come up with a best blend of various chordal
> combinations of octaves and 5ths over an octave, or
> several octave spread. .... etc. etc. etc.
>
>  Finding a most pure spot compromise of 3 notes
> sounded together over a given spread is nothing new.
> Do it all the time.
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>  It disturbs me that someone would patent a tuning
> method. It is like patenting a musical cord, it is
> not possible, because it is not right. It is basic
> nature.
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>   I reserve the right to play any combination of
> 2,3,4 notes together in any pattern I want, and tune
> them as pure as I want or push them outside pure as
> much as I want at anytime, anywhere. In the same way
> as playing jazz I do not have to be careful what
> notes I play in what order in a jazz solo. Also I
> will never be careful about what 3 note combinations
> not to use while tuning.
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>   Just the concept of patenting a tuning method
> I find bizarre and somewhat repulsive. The nature of
> sound dictates basic harmony and tuning, it is not
> man's invention, it is natural. It is like try to
> patent water. Nobody invented it, it was always there,
> basic.
>
>   I do not see this as something new. Name any
> 3 note pattern using octaves and 5ths, I have done it.
> Even over several octaves using sostenuto.
>
>  ........Perhaps I should patent sosteuto pedal
> use sustaining large 3 note spreads while
> tuning.......every piano could be equipped with a
> sensor on the sostenuto and have to be activated
> while tuning....5 cents a touch.
>
>  I know I am getting bazaar myself, and cynical.
> In a musical culture spanning centuries where so much
> has been contributed freely for the love of the art,
> ..patent an instrument, a song, but not the nature of
> sound itself.
>
>  I tune every which way...and nobody will put up a
> wall to any method.
>
>                           Cheers
>                           David Renaud
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