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Ghosttone tests as requested by Matt Nathan

🔗clucy@cix.compulink.co.uk (Charles Lucy)

2/23/1997 2:28:30 AM
Tests performed on guitar for ghosttones

as requested by Matt Nathan
Fifth Guitar String tuned to 110 Hz.
Here are the approximate results

Ghostones
Finger position
Percent Approx. Hz of ghosttone
50 220
41 550
33 330
25 440
20 550
17 660

Now to take this the next stages and measure them accurately.

and to start counting beat frequencies against a metronome.

The principle of this is explained in my spreadsheet which I
posted last week
lucy

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🔗Matt Nathan <mattn@...>

2/23/1997 5:00:31 AM
Brian Lee wrote:
>
> In Partch's Genesis of a Music there is extensive reference to a book by
> Kathleen Schlesinger
> ...
> In the Appendix of her book, Schlesinger talks
> about the work of Elsie Hamilton
> ...
> Kathleen Schlesinger and Elsie Hamilton were both Anthroposophists, that
> is they followed the teachings of one Dr Rudolf Steiner
> ...
> Eventually I got in contact with the Woods, a couple in their eighties who
> had taught at a Steiner School
> ...
> Mrs Wood...had scores of short pieces in JI by Hamilton and a
> booklet by Hamilton which summarises Schlesinger's system and describes her
> own application of it to contemporary music making.

How exciting! Keep us posted.

Matt Nathan

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