information for a dissertation

[antares]

Laurie,

I like people who dare to say about themselves what you just said :

"
>(I've never sounded more like a
> nerd in my life!)
"

and I enjoy the discussion you initiated about 'prepared piano'.


friendly greetings
from

Antares,

Amsterdam, Holland

"where music is, no harm can be"

visit my website at :  http://www.concertpianoservice.nl/


> From: LHudicek@AOL.COM
> Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 08:32:14 EST
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: information for a dissertation
> 
> In a message dated 2/16/2002 11:45:51 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> cedel@supernet.com writes:
> 
> 
>> Oh, come on now.  That I will never believe.  Have you done scientific
>> research to support such a conclusion? Regards,
>> Clyde Hollinger 
>> 
>> 
> 
> Actually it stems from the scientific/mathematical study of chaos (no not
> what we feel everytime we have to go to work - the idea that two trajectories
> that start out almost exactly the same will appear to be unrelated after a
> period of time).  No, I'm not positive that the toss of a coin is the only
> thing... in fact, I think that computers can be programmed to run random
> numbers. But there are few things that are truly random. I'm sure this isn't
> the appropriate list to post this to, and I'm not a chaos theorist, but I
> will rarely say something I cannot back up - a least a little bit.  Check out
> James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science. (I've never sounded more like a
> nerd in my life!)
>