[CAUT] Origin of P12ths StopperStimmung/tuning

[Richard Brekne]

Hi Bernhard

Just two comments:


    In response to Ric Breknes posts who is in doubt about my authorship  
    of part of my work, i see the need to post my viewpoint here:

1) I expressed no such doubt whatsoever. In fact I stated the exact 
opposite which, as it were,  directly relate to the specific claims you 
make below.

2) I simply state, claim and assert that the general idea of a Perfect 
12th based system precedes your published works, (which I can document) 
and that this illustrates how similar ideas and thinking happens oft 
times parallel in our rather small world without the people being aware 
of others work in the same area. Happens all the time.  I see no 
conflict whatsoever with what I have said, and repeat above with your 
claims below. I applaud your work and fully support all patent  
copyright rights you have as far as they go... but only as far as they 
go.  P 12ths tuning in general has been around before you formalized it, 
and for whatever its worth my own Tunelab application of the general 
idea precedes your own far more sophisticated software. Also all very 
easy to document. However... since your own Software clearly goes much 
farther in exploiting the potential of the P-12ths then my rather crude 
in comparison application does... I see no reason for you to concern 
yourself with it. Quite the opposite really.  The more folks get turned 
onto the idea of the P-12ths system in general... the more likely they 
are to want a Mercedes version of the tool.

Relax Bernhard we are on the same side here.

Cheers
RicB



    I claim:
    1.
    Having discovered and described the natural form of the fifth circle,  
    which is present in nature in the harmonics structure and is in fact a  
    circle of 12 duodecimes and 19 octaves (1988).

    2. Beeing the first having developped a real world tuning (i.e. taking  
    into consideration of nonlinearities) based on AURAL pure duodecimes  
    with the help of a DUODECIME TUNING TOOL (a tool spanning a duodecime  
    enabling to strike the duodecime with one hand while tuning),  
    resulting in "sweet spotted" aural pure duodecimes (not 3/1  
    duodecimes). Further using a temperament setup within the range of  
    such an AURAL duodecime, named the resulting tuning "Stopper Stimmung"  
    and used the name as a trademark for this tuning (published 1988).  
    Although StopperStimmung/tuning is BASED on the 19th root of 3,  this  
    factor is true but for the pitch unison. In fact real world  
    StopperStimmung/tuning is NOT a logarithmic 19th root of three tuning.

    3. (most important)
    Having discovered symmetry present in this tuning, eliminating beats  
    in various chord combinations by constructive interference, und thus  
    having discovered WHY this tuning sounds so good:  (2004).

    4.
    Having developped an improved aural tuning method (OnlyPure) using  
    explicitely the effects of the symmetry caused interference phenomenes  
    (2004).

    5.
    Having released a new tuning software which produces a tuning of the  
    form derived by the methods of claims 2 and 4. (2006).


    Best regards,

    Bernhard Stopper