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RE: From BRian McLaren

🔗PAULE <ACADIAN/ACADIAN/PAULE%Acadian@...>

11/21/1996 11:58:48 AM
A true Brian gem:

>Indeed, the popularity of the Pythagorean major
>third of 407.8-some cents becomes instantly
>comperhensible when you realize that on such an
>early organ an 81/64 would have started at 407.8 cents
>and dropped *through* 386 cents *down* even
>*below* the just 5/4 as the bellows feeding
>the pipe deflated completely (thus lowering
>the air pressure through the pipe).

Ok, Brian, why would the upper note decrease in pitch that much more than
the lower note? Must be because God so loves neutral thirds. And presumably,
for minor sixths, the lower note would decrease in pitch much more than the
upper note. So what would happen to an inverted augmented triad? Can God
create a stone so heavy that he cannot lift it? I think I'll go on counting
the angels on the head of a pin, thank you very much.


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