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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>h</STRONG>eavier <STRONG>t</STRONG>han <STRONG>H</STRONG>ank</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>h</STRONG>otter <STRONG>t</STRONG>han <STRONG>..</STRONG>ell</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I'm glad I'm going to <STRONG>H</STRONG>eaven rather <STRONG>T</STRONG>han <STRONG>H</STRONG>ell</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Marshall</FONT></DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: "Alan Barnard" <tune4u@earthlink.net> <BR><BR>> HTH? <BR>> <BR>> Happy Treasure Hunting? <BR>> <BR>> Horny-Toad Humor? <BR>> <BR>> Heaven Trumps Hell? <BR>> <BR>> Happy Tuning, Homer? <BR>> <BR>> Help The Hopeless? (Like that great old song: "You are so ... pitiful, to <BR>> meeeeee.") <BR>> <BR>> Alan Barnard <BR>> Salem, Missouri <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> > [Original Message] <BR>> > From: Mark Schecter <SCHECTER@PACBELL.NET><BR>> > To: Pianotech List <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG><BR>> > Date: 05/04/2006 12:11:12 AM <BR>> > Subject: Re: Huh?? was RE: pRCT got ears again... <BR>> > <BR>> > Hi, John. <BR>> > <BR>> > Sorry, but that's not correct. If the fifth above the bottom note of a <BR>> > 4:2 octave is made less contracted, approaching j
ust, the fourth below <BR>> > the top note will also get slower, as it contracts from its expanded <BR>> > state toward just. <BR>> > <BR>> > For example, if the octave is F3-F4, and the fifth above F3 is C4, the <BR>> > act of lowering C4 to contract the fifth, expands the fourth C4-F4. <BR>> > Contrariwise, if you then raise C4 to slow the fifth F3-C4, so doing <BR>> > also contracts the expanded fourth C4-F4 toward just, or beatless. It's <BR>> > easier to picture than to say. HTH. <BR>> > <BR>> > -Mark <BR>> > <BR>> > John M. Formsma wrote: <BR>> > > How do you get 4ths and 5ths to both be slower? In equal temperament, a <BR>> > > slower 5th means a faster 4th. <BR>> <BR>> </BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>