On 01/04/2021 09:50, Kevin Barry wrote:
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 11:47:05PM +0100, antlists wrote:
On 31/03/2021 20:20, Callum Cassidy-Nolan wrote:
You are correct, there is no distinction between these two notes,
because in terms of pitch they are the same.
Actually, they're not ...
If you'r
Kevin Barry writes:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 08:24:08PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> Sure. And even if you wanted to do this with numbers, the 12th root of
>> 2 can be calculated by doing a cube root and 2 square roots. And cube
>> roots were already calculated by Babylonian mathematicians
On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 08:24:08PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> So? The seventeenth century did not have frequency counters. Tunings
> were established (and actually still are to this day: just ask any organ
> tuner or accordion tuner) by distributing the beatings of non-pure
> intervals across
Kevin Barry writes:
> Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 05:03:58PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Kevin Barry writes:
>>
>> > That's why, as soon as the mathematics (root extractions) required for
>> > tempered tuning were discovered, it rapidly became the standard.
>>
>> I think your history of mathematic
Kevin Barry writes:
> Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 05:03:58PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Kevin Barry writes:
>>
>> > That's why, as soon as the mathematics (root extractions) required for
>> > tempered tuning were discovered, it rapidly became the standard.
>>
>> I think your history of mathematic
Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 05:03:58PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Kevin Barry writes:
>
> > That's why, as soon as the mathematics (root extractions) required for
> > tempered tuning were discovered, it rapidly became the standard.
>
> I think your history of mathematics is a bit off. Seriously. A
On 2021-03-31 12:12 pm, Callum Cassidy-Nolan wrote:
Could you explain why 6 usually corresponds to the pitch B and not
always?
B does not always mean B natural. In systems where H is a note, B is
the name for B flat. The documentation here is perhaps a little
misleading in that it implies t
Kevin Barry writes:
> That's why, as soon as the mathematics (root extractions) required for
> tempered tuning were discovered, it rapidly became the standard.
I think your history of mathematics is a bit off. Seriously. And I
have no idea how you think mean-tone tunings work.
--
David Kastr
The issue of black notes is a red herring. Even if you restrict
yourself to one pitch, "A" let's say, you will find that there isn't a
single correct value for it. The A which is a major third above F is not
the same pitch as the A that is fourth fifths (less two octaves) from F
(if anyone int
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 11:47:05PM +0100, antlists wrote:
> On 31/03/2021 20:20, Callum Cassidy-Nolan wrote:
> > You are correct, there is no distinction between these two notes,
> > because in terms of pitch they are the same.
>
> Actually, they're not ...
>
> If you're talking about "well-tempe
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