4:5:6:7:8

I rarely post, but read avidly.

I have concluded several large scale works that are perceived as very
tonal in nature with a final chord with the following ratios:

1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8:9:10:11:12:16:24:32:48:64

or, in non-ratio terms, the first twelve partials and then the octave and
fifth for two octaves.

Interestingly enough, the chord is invariable heard as a BIG major triad,
and usually only the people playing the seventh and eleventh partials are
aware that they have to tune these notes a little differently, even though
these notes are scored prominently.

Joe Downing,
in Syracuse


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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

[The following text is from
. --pH]

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Computer Virus
Information Pages



NAME:
Penpal greetings

This is not a virus, but a widespread hoax, warning about a dangerous e-mail
message titled 'Penpal greetings'. No such danger exists.

This hoax is very similar to Good Times. See the description of Good Times for
more information.

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There's an excellent essay on Internet hoaxes at



I would recommend everyone read it before passing on any message that
includes the phrase, "please forward this to everyone you know . . . "

--pH (manynote@library.wustl.edu or http://library.wustl.edu/~manynote)
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/\ "'Jever take'n try to give an ironclad leave to
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Consider that, for a virus to infect a system or at least for it to "do
something to a system", your computer has to execute it as a program.
Programs, in that general sense of the word, are the only way a computer
can do anything including damage.

Although this is getting a LITTLE blurrier over time, there is currently
no way that merely reading a message can cause the content of the message
to be executed as a program. Messages are strictly data.

Java and helper apps in Web Surfing make that distinction a little less
clear than it has been in the past, but still, as yet, messages sent over
the net don't run as programs.

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