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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Wim:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Ah, mi comprendo. I was only thinking of the =
"tuning"
beats. It gets a little confusing, so I'm going back to "so what?" lest =
I
display further ignorance ... :-)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Alan</FONT></DIV>
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title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 24, =
2002 9:13
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Cents to Hertz =
Conversion
Chart</DIV>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF">In a message dated 12/23/02 10:14:24 PM Central =
Standard
Time, <A href="mailto:tune4u@earthlink.net">tune4u@earthlink.net</A> =
writes:<BR><BR>
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TYPE="CITE">whereas A# doesn't beat at all, of course, nor does any =
pitch,
unless it is beating against a different pitch.
</BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Alan<BR><BR>Every pitch beats. It is also called =
cycle
per second. On an imperial Bosey, you can hear the beat rate of the =
lowest
note at 16 BPS. You can also hear beats as the diffence between two =
intervals.
That is where those partials come in. <BR><BR>Wim
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