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Javanese instrument tuning

🔗Darren Burgess <dburgess@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx>

2/27/1999 6:03:34 AM

Daniel wolf wrote:
When I had my gambang (xylophone) keys made in Klaten, Java, the maker
first tuned the 2nd partial to an exact double octave and then tuned it
away from this interval, so that "it would be heard". This demonstrated
that the maker was aware of how the timbre could be manipulated, but
deliberately chose a non-harmonic timbre to bring out the distinctiveness
of the instrument.

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Daniel,

Please explain the process by which these instrument builders tune the 2nd
partial in an octave relationship.

Darren Burgess
Gainesville FL

🔗John Starrett <jstarret@...>

8/28/2001 8:01:54 PM

Here is s huge list of scientific software, much of it for free:
http://euclid.math.fsu.edu/Science/Software.html

🔗genewardsmith@...

8/30/2001 1:56:59 PM

--- In crazy_music@y..., "John Starrett" <jstarret@c...> wrote:
> --- In crazy_music@y..., xed@e... wrote:

> > Alas, John, this points up a truly grotesque aspect of today's
> modern world...namely, the obscenely high price of mathematical
> software.

> Yikes! I had no idea. I got the student edition and I am still
using
> it. It costs $99 and is complete, no restrictions except that they
> want you to be a student to use it. OK, sign up for the cheapest
class
> at the cheapest community college in your area and pay $99.
> Mathematica has the same deal, $99 student edition for
> registered students, full blown.

The student version of Maple has no such restriction on it. It is
crippleware which they neglected to cripple--for almost all practical
purposes, it is the same as the full version. Maple IMHO is easier to
use and to program than Mathematica and better for some applications.
Among mathematicians, algebraists and number theorists seem to prefer
Maple, and geometers Mathematica.

🔗John Starrett <jstarret@...>

8/30/2001 8:18:26 PM

<snip>
> The student version of Maple has no such restriction on it. It is
> crippleware which they neglected to cripple--for almost all
practical
> purposes, it is the same as the full version. Maple IMHO is easier
to
> use and to program than Mathematica and better for some
applications.
> Among mathematicians, algebraists and number theorists seem to
prefer
> Maple, and geometers Mathematica.

Yup, and it's only $129.

http://www.maplesoft.com/