[pianotech] [CAUT] More Bohemia

[Bernhard Stopper]

The point is, that you came out on the list with this "new" tuning  
idea about six years ago (+-, it doesn´t matter exactly). As i jumped  
on the list to enlighten you that there was published work by me on  
the matter, it was apparantly quite hard for you to accept this fact.  
All your writing about the matter in return had the intention to  
"construct" a prior art myth before my work in return. You did not  
even hesitate to twist the truth for that attempt. In no place in Gary  
Schulze´s article he expresses his intention to set up a pure twelfth  
temperament. He is presenting an equal temperament of the 31th root of  
six, to achieve as much as intervals as pure as possible. The formula  
you formerly presented on the CAUT list as "prove", simply expressed  
not what you wanted to interpreted from it.


Bernhard Stopper


Am 27.04.2009 um 21:28 schrieb Richard Brekne:

> Bernard.... you do indeed make it difficult to defer politely and at  
> the same time appropriately to you.
> I said nothing about you making your material known to the <<piano  
> community>>.  I said <<us>> -- as in here on the PTG lists. Please  
> take my comments in their correct context. Indeed your article was  
> published in the 5 languages the Euro magazine always translates  
> too... but that part of the <<piano community>> resides in Europe,  
> and the Euro was not read in the States at the time by more then a  
> handful if by any at all.... The stateside part of the <<piano  
> community>> had no idea who you were until you showed up on  
> Pianotech about 6 years ago. I would be surprised if the rest of the  
> <<piano community>> in the world knew who any of us are.  As far as  
> to what degree Gary Schulze's article points to a Perfect 12ths  
> approach.... well he says different... I most certainly read it  
> different... and I'll let you argue the matter with him if you like.
>
> I personally don't give a hoot who thought of what first.... all I  
> am interested in is the subject matter itself... and last time I  
> checked... there is no law about discussing such subject matter.   
> Indeed... strikes me that the more people talk about and listen to  
> P-12ths material in an open and friendly environment the greater  
> chance you will have of selling your own software.  I'm not selling  
> anything myself... just offering an implementation using software  
> equipped to render this tuning.
> Cheers
> RicB
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>   "My approach was not made known 6 years ago to the piano community,
>   but  published already 21 years ago in a euro piano article from
>   1988, as  Stopper temperament, where i published this method along
>   with the  usage of a twelfth spanner tool and the discovery of the
>   natural form  of the fifth circle which is in fact a nineteen
>   octaves and twelve  twelfths circle.
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>   This article has been published in 5 languages . (German,  
> english,    italian, french and danish.)
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>   Gary Schulze´s article is not an introduction of a general P12
>   tuning  approach."
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