Harrison (was: just one more meantone...)

----- Original Message -----
From: "genewardsmith" <genewardsmith@juno.com>
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 9:17 PM
Subject: [tuning] Re: just one more meantone...

> --- In tuning@y..., "Danny Wier" <dawier@h...> wrote:
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> > The schismic meantone I mentioned earlier came from
> > Helmholtz. I didn't know where to go to find lists of
> > known meantones. And I've just now discovered the joys
> > of 31-tone, and now I'm wondering if Harrison's comma,
> > 59049/57344 (ten perfect fifths vs. a 7/4 seventh
> > and five octaves), has ever been used.
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> Used how? It's a feature of standard septimal meantone,
> and is a comma of the 12-et (as well as 19,31,43,50, and 74)
> so obviously in some sense it's been used a lot. If you mean
> for {2,3,7}-based music, maybe someone should ask Harrison.

John "Longitude" Harrison has been dead for a couple of centuries.

http://www.harmonics.com/lucy/harrindex.html

-monz
"all roads lead to n^0"

oops ... it was pointed out to me that the Harrison of
"Harrison's comma" is Lou, and not John "Longitude"!

my apologies to Lou.

-monz
"all roads lead to n^0"

----- Original Message -----
From: "monz" <monz@attglobal.net>
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 8:27 AM
Subject: [tuning] Harrison (was: just one more meantone...)

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "genewardsmith" <genewardsmith@juno.com>
> To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 9:17 PM
> Subject: [tuning] Re: just one more meantone...
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> > --- In tuning@y..., "Danny Wier" <dawier@h...> wrote:
> >
> > > The schismic meantone I mentioned earlier came from
> > > Helmholtz. I didn't know where to go to find lists of
> > > known meantones. And I've just now discovered the joys
> > > of 31-tone, and now I'm wondering if Harrison's comma,
> > > 59049/57344 (ten perfect fifths vs. a 7/4 seventh
> > > and five octaves), has ever been used.
> >
> > Used how? It's a feature of standard septimal meantone,
> > and is a comma of the 12-et (as well as 19,31,43,50, and 74)
> > so obviously in some sense it's been used a lot. If you mean
> > for {2,3,7}-based music, maybe someone should ask Harrison.
>
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> John "Longitude" Harrison has been dead for a couple of centuries.
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> http://www.harmonics.com/lucy/harrindex.html
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> -monz
> "all roads lead to n^0"
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--- In tuning@y..., "monz" <monz@a...> wrote:

> oops ... it was pointed out to me that the Harrison of
> "Harrison's comma" is Lou, and not John "Longitude"!

I thought that made more sense for 7-limit music; hence, my comment.