[pianotech] [CAUT] More Bohemia

Bernhard Stopper b98tu at t-online.de
Mon Apr 27 23:01:36 PDT 2009


David,
this material will be available again in the publication i am actually  
preparing.

Bernhard Stopper


Am 27.04.2009 um 17:38 schrieb David Skolnik:

> Bernhard -
> I know there was a good deal of caloric discussion about this in the  
> not-to-distant past on this list (or CAUT), so I don't want to  
> mindlessly re-ignite anything now.  If RicB is correct in stating  
> that the document formerly found on your website is no longer so  
> available, would you suggest another way of accessing it?  Perhaps  
> this can be the summer where I finally learn what I'm doing, or not  
> doing.
>
> David Skolnik
> Hastings on Hudson, NY
>
>
>
>
> At 06:24 AM 4/27/2009, you wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> This article has been published in 5 languages . (German, english,
>> italian, french and danish.)
>>
>> Gary Schulze´s article is not an introduction of a general P12 tuning
>> approach.
>>
>> He was rather trying to compensate for inharmonicity to make  
>> intervals
>> like double octaves, twelfths, fifhts and triple octaves as pure as
>> possible.
>>
>> In his article he is favoring a 31th root of six equal temperament to
>> achive this inharmonicity compensation, what is a different thing  
>> from
>> a general pure twelfth tuning world view.
>>
>> Bernhard Stopper
>>
>> Am 27.04.2009 um 12:39 schrieb Richard Brekne:
>>
>>> Seriously tho... there is a good deal written actually now about
>>> P-12ths.  I'd suggest starting with Gary's article from 1982.  It
>>> contains some very fine observations that you wont find anywhere
>>> else. Hunting through the archives can be time consuming... but
>>> there are some good tidbits there. Stopper made himself known to us
>>> about 6 years back and has a well pondered out specific system and
>>> analysis of P-12ths in classic interval fraction form.  I think he
>>> removed that paper from his website but if he will share it with you
>>> it is also a good read.
>
>
>




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