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pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Jason Kanter<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, June 26, 2007 12:11
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Pianotech List<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: back from K.C. David
A / Stopper /P12 authorship</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 6/26/07, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Richard
Brekne</span></b> <<a href="mailto:ricb@pianostemmer.no">ricb@pianostemmer.no</a>>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Bernard<br>
<br>
You seem like a nice fellow, and we have hashed this through
before. I<br>
go out of my way to credit you for the work you did in the 70's.. or <br>
whenever it was, since you first brought my attention to it. You no<br>
doubt were influenced by people in your career and something stimulated<br>
you to thinking along these lines... just like happened to me. I<br>
actually do resent greatly your insistence that I am in so many
words a <br>
fake and a phony in this matter. The fact is that the major 6th and<br>
double 10th comparisons I ran into some years back do not add up to a<br>
perfect 12th tuning. They just happen to compare the 3:1 coincident.<br>
They (these tests) were brought into the picture as just one other test<br>
for helping one get octaves. No one mentioned anything to me at any<br>
point about tuning straight out from a 12ths perspective instead of an<br>
Octave. <br>
<br>
Now this is the deal Bernard... through history many folks have thought<br>
up things all on their own, made developments all on their own, without<br>
knowing of others works before, after, parallel ... whatever. Happens <br>
all the time. Get used to it. In this case.. I have time and time
again<br>
since you first popped up claiming prior whatevers on this idea<br>
acknowledged that you were before me. I have never tried to take
credit<br>
for being the first guy to ever come up with this idea... quite the<br>
opposite... In fact I have insisted that it is quite likely the idea<br>
precedes you as well. In fact I dont give a hoot about any of this
kind<br>
of thing. <br>
<br>
I do on the other hand take harm at someone insinuating time and time<br>
again that I purposefully mislead people into thinking that the P-12<br>
tuning idea that I came up with and executed on Tunelab was my
own. It <br>
was, and all your nasty insinuations to the contrary will not change<br>
that. I had no idea of what your work, and for your information
Andre<br>
was not the first person, nor the last for that matter to
<<introduce>> <br>
me to these tests. Not by a long shot. The only real coincidence any
of<br>
this has with Andre is that I had developed sufficiently in my own right<br>
to add a couple 2 and 2's together and think about what would happen if <br>
you just plain used Tunelab to enforce P-12ths strictly and ignore any<br>
and all other priorities. Nor did anyone give me any hint at all
about<br>
looking at the 9th root of 3. It wasnt a quantum leap to make or<br>
anything mind you... since using the 12th root of 2 do divide an octave<br>
into even bits had been around for ages... when one first decides to<br>
look at 12ths... its a rather reasonable step to take. Yep... that<br>
piece of <<brilliance>> was also all my own...despite it obviously <br>
having been done elsewhere in the world unbeknownst to me previously.<br>
<br>
As for the rest of what you claim about Andre and Arnold, I think
its<br>
in kind of poor taste to publicly accuse people of what you do below <br>
behind their backs as it were. I would point out tho your version of<br>
<<history>> clearly admits a prior knowledge to your own of the
basic<br>
idea of using the 3:1 coincident as a tuning priority. I would also <br>
underline that the first instance I ever ran into of P 12 ths thinking<br>
was a PTG article in the early 80's or late 70's as I remember. At
the<br>
time I just read it with interest and dismissed the thought. I never to <br>
this day have seen your own article... and since I had no contact at all<br>
with Euro Piano prior to 1996 it is not likely that I would have either.<br>
<br>
Now... I'd appreciate an apology from you on the matter. I do not,
nor <br>
do Andre and Arnold, whom are fine, respectable, and honest technicians,<br>
deserve these kinds of remarks. Nor do you have any reason
whatsoever<br>
to feel threatened. Nobody at all has taken issue with your work. In
<br>
fact... In my first response along these lines just yesterday I paid<br>
deference to that and mentioned you by name.<br>
<br>
Cordially<br>
Richard Brekne<br>
<br>
<br>
Ric,<br>
<br>
The guy who put you into the trail to P12 you was André Oorebek
from <br>
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Amsterdam</st1:place></st1:City>
(you figured out in another post) and "a rather small article<br>
i found about in the seventies" (your own words, you still
have to<br>
find it)<br>
<br>
Both indicates and proofs that it was not yourself who pushed you
up <br>
into the thing. In practice, the "other guy" already did
so. Now for the<br>
theory: <st1:City w:st="on">Arnold</st1:City> Duin from <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Amsterdam</st1:place></st1:City>, a former companion
of André Oorebek,<br>
told me at a Mensurix workshop i hold in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Amsterdam</st1:place></st1:City> a few years ago at <br>
their convention that they learned the major<br>
sixth-doubleoctavemajorthird test from their old teacher who was
not<br>
firm with any theory about tuning, but a good tuner. They tried to<br>
convince him, that it is not correct to do so from tuning theory.
Some <br>
years later, after my publication in euro-piano, they began to
adapt to<br>
the P12. The article you mentioned was probably mine
(the initial<br>
publication of the pure twelfth temperement or
"Stopper-Tuning" in <br>
euro-piano 1988) So your finding was indirectly (via Andre) and
probably<br>
directly (the article) initiated by my work about the matter. I
really<br>
hate to offend other people, but you do so to me a little by
continously <br>
claiming independent authorship on the theoretical matter in your
posts.<br>
<br>
It was always my intention with the P12 temperament to get the
tuning<br>
theory compatible with what the best aural tuners tend to do, while
the <br>
standard 12th root of two tempermant theory is not so.
Mathematically<br>
the 19th root of three temperament is on a first look only one
approach<br>
between thousands of possibilities to split the pythagorean comma
on <br>
either side of the fifths circle.<br>
<br>
More important (if not sensational, sorry for the self-praise) is
my<br>
finding of the beat symmetries (or symmetric interfenrence
phenomene)<br>
inherent in only this equal temperament four years ago, cancelling
out <br>
the beats in octave and fifths combinations and thus turning a
tempered<br>
tuning into pure tuning when playing chords. And this the proof
why this<br>
tempermant is superior to any other.<br>
<br>
<br>
regards, <br>
<br>
Bernhard Stopper<br>
<br>
<br>
Richard Brekne schrieb:<br>
> Hi Jason. To take your thought a step further, The
guy who first put<br>
> me on the trail of the P-12ths idea showed me a series of
test<br>
> intervals. A major third, major sixth, octave 10th and double
octave<br>
> 10th. For tuning C6 for example, the relevant
notes would be Ab3, C4,<br>
> F4, C5, and C6, with the Ab3 being the control note the whole
way. <br>
> The Third should be slowest, but just slightly slower then
the 10th.<br>
> The 6th should be fastest, again by a very slight amount, and
the note<br>
> you are tuning... the double 10th should be just inbetween
the 6th and <br>
> the other two. This makes the 12th below C6 just very
slightly off<br>
> pure. Just got me thinking back then that it would be easy to
use<br>
> Tunelab to do this directly<br>
><br>
> David Anderson using the clean fourths this way moves in a
very <br>
> similar direction.<br>
><br>
> Cheers<br>
> RicB<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Yes. As I think about it, I recall
that David Andersen puts great<br>
> emphasis<br>
> on the fourths, especially on the way
down through the tenor. Now <br>
> fourths do<br>
> happen to have the coincident partial
that is a P12 from the upper<br>
> note. So<br>
> in a manner of hearing, David is
emphasizing P12 in his own<br>
way. Hmm.<br>
><br>
> Jason<br>
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