<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>RE: Was OnlyPure not P12ths Tunings</title></head><body> <div>At 6:17 PM -0500 4/14/05, Porritt, David wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite" cite>The difference between the 12th root of 2, and the 19th root of 3 is 0.00006297038.  That's not a difference I can aurally detect.</blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>That's before modulating this ratio by the actual landscape of inharmonicity on a given piano.</div> <div><br></div> <div>At 12:42 AM +0100 4/15/05, Ric Brekne wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite" cite>I've heard Bill Ballard talk about an article or column he wrote in the journal some 20 years back or so, and I've seen another column on the matter from the 70's I believe.</blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>"The 3:1 Octave" back sometime in '93, a technique I'd stumbled on in '88. The list may remember that we went over the Prior Art of this business once already, last September.</div> <div><br></div> <div>At 6:02 PM -0700 4/14/05, Joe Garrett wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">What you are proposing to "market", is already available from Jim Coleman Sr. for free! He's already done it.</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>Joe, just for historical purposes, which of the many tuning schemes Jim has handed out over the years, are you referring to? And of course, Bernhard has only given us a rough sketch of the aural version of his temperament.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Bill Ballard RPT<br> NH Chapter, P.T.G.<br> <br> ".......true more in general than specifically"<br>     ...........Lenny Bruce, spoofing a radio discussion of the Hebrew roots of Calypso music</div> <div>+++++++++++++++++++++</div> </body> </html>