<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Oct 1, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Fred Sturm wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">I'm afraid statements ... make me very, very skeptical and wary.</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Of course. Likewise, I am sure.</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Personally, I don't believe in magic.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>New technology is indistinguishable from magic, and I do believe that new technology comes along from time to time.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Your spreadsheet construction is very interesting, but it would not, after all of those calculations, match two pianos that differ wildly in inharmonicity. Or, if you say it would, I await the audio files. 8^)</div><div><br></div><div>No one said that 19 tone to the perfect twelfth equal temperament is new. (Although Stopper does claim to have been among the first to publish it many years ago.) Stopper's approach to realizing the tuning across a whole piano scale and indeed across a wide variety of <i>differing</i> piano scales in such a way as to produce a characteristic and pleasing synchronous effect, however, <i>does </i>appear to be new.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Kent</div><div><br></div></body></html>