Bernard. I am sure we are all willing to acknowledge your original contribution and obvious far more developed and all rounded system for both tuning and music then my own humble contrivance some 20 years after the fact. That said, Jason was indeed referring to a very specific (and totally independently arrived upon I might add) tuning scheme worked out by myself on Tunelab 97, and as such there is no reason for Jason to have thought to call it anything else but the what he did. I think also, if you look closely enough at both this simple and straightforward rendering of a P-12ths tuning concept, and for that matter Dr. Colemans far more well founded and theoretically based P-5ths temperament have significant differences then the <<originals>> you cite. I think, for my own part. I have gone out of my way to acknowledge any prior arts and credits due. It is a fact however, that individuals around the world strike often on similar tracks independently of one another and each in their own way could be said to deserve some form of credit for the ideas they present. That said.. I personally dont give a hoot about all that as I believe the collective knowledge base is far more important then the <<who thought of what first>> mentality. Cheers RicB Bernard Stopper wrote. Jason, I published the perfect 12th tuning in euro piano 3/1988 as "Stopper tuning - equal temperament on the base of pure dudecimos".20 The base for this tuning is a 12 pure 12th circle closing with 19 Octaves plus pythagorean comma what itself describes a new musical system. I did not found any earlier publications relating to this tuning/musical system. BTW it may also be said that the pure fifth tuning was invented by the french Serge Cordier and not by Mr. Coleman as often stated here and on many internet sources.
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