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Story of Harmony

🔗"Anne L. Coulombe" <acoulombe@...>

4/8/1997 1:24:31 PM
Just reread a great new book called "The Story of Harmony" by Rex Weyler
and Bill Gannon. The Neanderthal flute just happens to be in the 2nd
Chapter just after describing the 1706 "tuning showdown in Jena,
Germany" (two sets of church organs pipes, two renowned choir masters,
two musical paradigm clashed on that day...). The rest of the book
covers Pythagoras to today's new composer/musicians.

Their web site has a good description of their current software and
upcoming synth solution to real-time pure harmony, although the book
goes much more into depth regarding the evolution of harmony over the
years. You might wish to check them out at http://www.justonic.com or
even send Rex an e-mail at rexw@justonic.com

I've heard some of the classics as well as some new work played using
the Justonic Pitch Palette system and the harmonies are pure. I did find
that "The Story of Harmony" really openned my eyes to what I knew I was
hearing, it definately renewed my preference in a harmonic tuning
method.

AnneC

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SciPlan Consulting Tel: 604-421-8079 fax: 604-421-4466
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🔗Daniel Wolf <DJWOLF_MATERIAL@...>

4/9/1997 12:37:53 PM
Citation:

''The discovery was made by Oscar Todkopf, a paleontologist at Hindenburg University.''

Can someone please tell me where I might find this fine institution?

DJWOLF / FRANKFURT

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🔗"Ashcraft AC (Clif)" <aaaabb1@...>

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Well considering that it was the April issue of Discovery magazine....

I'm not sure you will find it at all. I believe it was an "April Fool" issue.

Just a bit of humor.

I am also sure that there is no professor of paleontology with the name "Deadhead".
Clif Ashcraft

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From: Daniel Wolf[SMTP:DJWOLF_MATERIAL@compuserve.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 1997 2:37 PM
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Subject: RE: Neanderthal flute

Citation:

''The discovery was made by Oscar Todkopf, a paleontologist at Hindenburg University.''

Can someone please tell me where I might find this fine institution?

DJWOLF / FRANKFURT



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🔗alves@orion.ac.hmc.edu (Bill Alves)

4/9/1997 3:35:28 PM
>Well considering that it was the April issue of Discovery magazine....
>
>I'm not sure you will find it at all. I believe it was an "April Fool"
>issue.
>
>Just a bit of humor.
>
>I am also sure that there is no professor of paleontology with the name
>"Deadhead".

Maybe you're right, but if so it could have been a lot funnier. I found the
article on the web, by the way:

http://www.enews.com/magazines/discover/magtxt/9704-2.html#5

It includes a sound file that is pretty humorous, someone trying to play an
"oom-pah-pah" bass line with what I presume is supposed to be the tusk
tuba.

Did the editor warn people about practical jokes in the issue? I didn't see
any others, but, then, maybe I'm just too gullible.


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🔗"Ashcraft AC (Clif)" <aaaabb1@...>

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>Did the editor warn people about practical jokes in the issue?

The section of the April issue of Discovery Magazine containing the bogus news article on the "discovery" of a Neanderthal tuba, bagpipe, xylobone and nose flute is called Breakthroughs, and is normally the spot reserved for real breaking news in the sciences. So far I have found no warnings or disclaimers in this issue, but they could be buried in the fine print on the editorial staff credits paragraph.

The individual articles in this particular Breakthrough were convincingly written and could easily fool the non-specialist, casual reader. I got a big kick out of them. They're written a lot like the April fool articles by Martin Gardner in the old Scientific American - like the one he wrote claiming Leonardo DaVinci was the inventor of the flush toilet, authoritatively backed up by a just discovered codex filled with DaVinci style drawings and mirror writing which was supposedly found in the Vatican files.

The Neanderthal tuba article was fairly liberally sprinkled with dead give-away's like the name of the paleontologist (Todtkopf), and the non-existent university (Hindenburg U - isn't that somewhere in New Jersey?) which sort of sounds like a real one if you read it fast, and the increasingly bizarre nature of the "facts" reported as you approach the end of the article. I was actually disappointed when it finally dawned on me that the image I had been building up in my head of a Neanderthal Oom-pah band wasn't real!

The other articles are more subtle (except maybe the one on bacterially produced limestone cement using a nutrient broth containing urea and calcium chloride which was proposed for preventing surface flaking on the Mount Rushmore sculptures). I assume all of the Breakthrough articles in this issue are bogus.

Clif Ashcraft

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From: Bill Alves[SMTP:alves@orion.ac.hmc.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 1997 5:35 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: RE: Neanderthal flute

>Well considering that it was the April issue of Discovery magazine....
>
>I'm not sure you will find it at all. I believe it was an "April Fool"
>issue.
>
>Just a bit of humor.
>
>I am also sure that there is no professor of paleontology with the name
>"Deadhead".

Maybe you're right, but if so it could have been a lot funnier. I found the
article on the web, by the way:

http://www.enews.com/magazines/discover/magtxt/9704-2.html#5

It includes a sound file that is pretty humorous, someone trying to play an
"oom-pah-pah" bass line with what I presume is supposed to be the tusk
tuba.

Did the editor warn people about practical jokes in the issue? I didn't see
any others, but, then, maybe I'm just too gullible.


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^ Bill Alves email: alves@hmc.edu ^
^ Harvey Mudd College URL: http://www2.hmc.edu/~alves/ ^
^ 301 E. Twelfth St. (909)607-4170 (office) ^
^ Claremont CA 91711 USA (909)621-8360 (fax) ^
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🔗Johnny Reinhard <reinhard@...>

4/11/1997 9:44:50 AM
Though the Discovery article was an April's Fools ploy, the Neanderthal
"flute" is real. At the recent Flute Conference held in New York,
microtonal flutist Susan Friedlander reported to me that they were leaning
towards a nay-like activater for the cave bear femur. Additionally, there
are reputed to be bird-bone flutes, a fair number of which were found in
the same location as the femur-flute.

According to the photo in TNYTimes, 4 holes were punched into the femur of
a now extinct cave bear, visually equidistant. The outside rims of the
furthest holes have decayed.

Johnny Reinhard
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🔗mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison)

4/12/1997 8:20:01 AM
>According to the photo in TNYTimes, 4 holes were punched into the femur of
>a now extinct cave bear, visually equidistant. The outside rims of the
>furthest holes have decayed.

Perhaps you're saying the same thing in a different way, but the picture
in the web page, shows the apparent instrument broken on both ends at
toneholes, with only two completely intact toneholes between the break
points. The distance between the two intact toneholes is clearly much
larger than the distance between the end-most intact toneholes and the
break points.

That does seem to suggest that it played a unequal scale, but what that
scale may be is hard to be sure of without having the embouchure hole
intact.



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