error in Vyshnegradski

I was reading Ivor Darreg's translation
of Vyshnegradski's 1933 "Manual of Quartertone
Harmony", published in Xenharmonik�n 6
[summer 1977]. Near the end, in the appendix,
"Acoustic Justifications for the system of
Quartertones", p 33, there is a typo:

[Vyshnegradski/ Darreg:]
> ...taking C as fundamental... A note
> one-sixth of a tone lower than B would be
> almost exactly the 7th harmonic...

This should obviously be "one-sixth of a
tone lower than B-flat".

With the additional quartertone accidentals
discussed in this paragraph, this statement
could be very confusing for a newbie.

In Darreg's defense, this is a typewritten
document, with all accidentals written in
by hand after it was typed. "B" occurs at the
end of the line and the flat sign was just
overlooked - Ivor was too accurate to have
made a blunder like that intentionally,
even if the Vyshnegradski's original had
the mistake in it.

Now for the plug:

I'd like to add that I wholehearted recommend
reading this manual. Although rather short,
it's by far the most interesting and
comprehensive coverage I've read of
harmony based on the good old 24-Eq scale,
which I've used myself and liked.

Now for the shameless plug:

there's a short MIDI example on my site:
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/24EQTUNE.MID

- Monzo
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> [Vyshnegradski/ Darreg:]
> > ...taking C as fundamental... A note
> > one-sixth of a tone lower than B would be
> > almost exactly the 7th harmonic...
>
> This should obviously be "one-sixth of a
> tone lower than B-flat".

Presumably, with a name like Vyshnegradski, it's not likely that he's
German, but for whatever it's worth, Germans use "B" for what Americans
call "Bb".

Hi, I found a chart of English and German names for scale degrees in my
book "Music Theory" by G. T. Jones. Here is how the names compare:
English German
A sharp Ais
B flat B
B H
B sharp His
C flat Ces
Maybe this will help decide if there are errors in any of the note names.
ALITA
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> From: Gary Morrison <mr88cet@texas.net>
> To: tuning@onelist.com
> Subject: [tuning] Re: error in Vyshnegradski
> Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 3:10 PM
>
> From: Gary Morrison <mr88cet@texas.net>
>
> > [Vyshnegradski/ Darreg:]
> > > ...taking C as fundamental... A note
> > > one-sixth of a tone lower than B would be
> > > almost exactly the 7th harmonic...
> >
> > This should obviously be "one-sixth of a
> > tone lower than B-flat".
>
> Presumably, with a name like Vyshnegradski, it's not likely that he's
> German, but for whatever it's worth, Germans use "B" for what Americans
> call "Bb".
>
>
>
>
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