TUNING digest 1244

Paul Erlich wrote:

< there is a history of attempts to identify "the
<
<8.2021: Bohlen, Pierce
<16: Goldsmith
<19: Salinas, Yasser
<20: Balzano
<24: Wychnegradsky
<31: Huygens, Fokker
<36: Gawel
<41: von Janko
<53: Mercator (did he strictly look at 3-limit? Who was the first to note=

<72: Richter-Herf (Partch missed this in his list -- it would have


A few comments about this list: Balzano chose 20 as a scale with differen=
t
group characteristics from twelve in order to try out some perceptual
hypotheses, not to offer ''the next step''. And Erv Wilson told me that
Partch was unable to distinguish 41 from his system when playing on
Wilson's 41tet tubulong (this gives an excellent approximation of the
Partch scale, with the representations of 10/11 - 12/11 and 11/6 - 20/11
sharing single pitches). As for 72, I would certainly add Sims, Manieri,
and Tenney to the list to get out of that strange little _Ekmelische
Sackgasse_. As for 53, the father of the triangulated lattice S. Tanaka h=
as
to be added!
=


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>(I am working at present with aluminum rods fixed at one end. An
>ideal rod should yield three first partials in the ratios of 1 : 6.27 :
>17.55; I have yet to meet such a rod, but have found that with a little
>filing in the right places I can tune the partials close to 1 : 8 : 16 =

Can you let us in on any details, Dan? Are these rods bowed a la the "nail
violin"? Where are the "right places"?


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