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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The first publication about the P12 =
tuning was my
article in 3/1988 in the euro piano.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The ominous article from the seventies =
Ric talked
about was never prooved. Me seems possible he mangled some years and is
referring to my article of the euro piano. This article was originally =
in
german, and translated into english, french, danish, italy =
herein.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But this is not the fact.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>again:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>what i claim as new is the new method =
by using the
pure 3-note interval combinations of octave and fifth to reach =
the P12
tuning, not the P12 tuning itself or any of the existing P12
approaches.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bernhard</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: =
black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=yardbird@vermontel.net =
href="mailto:yardbird@vermontel.net">William
Ballard</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 15, 2005 =
3:00
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: Was OnlyPure not =
P12ths
Tunings</DIV>
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<DIV>At 6:17 PM -0500 4/14/05, Porritt, David wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="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 cite="" type="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 cite="" type="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></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>