Harmonic Series

> Pardon me if I'm missing something here, but I was under the impression
> that small number ratios were precisely intervals found in the harmonic
> overtone series, ie. 8/5 being the relationship between the 8th and 5th
> harmonic of the series. Perhaps I don't understand the terminology
> properly.
> Bruce Kanzelmeyer

I think that what John S. and later Paul E. interpreted Neil's comments
to be much more specific than Bruce K., and possibly Neil himself intended
them. In particular, I think they interpreted them - and it's a meaningful
interpretation - as refering to SPECIFICALLY playing from the harmonic
series itself, as opposed to various tunings built upon the intervalic
resources present in the harmonic series.

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