The irony of Harrison's comma mistaken identity

I was amused by the irony of the Harrison confusion.

I am at present transcribing John 'Longitude' Harrison's 1770's manuscript "A true and full Account of the Foundation of Musick". As you can see from the quote below on the first page, after his preface, Harrison had his own ideas about the comma:

"the natural Notes of Melody are certainly free from all the inconsistent nonsense arising from the Imagination of there being a Tone Major of 9 to 8, a Tone Minor of 10 to 9, and a nonsensical Comma (as being their difference) of 81 to 80, " -
John Harrison.

As I understand it Lou Harrison and many other integer frequency ratio advocates, have yet to be able to hear or tune beyond commas, and this simple arithmetic "nonsense".

I welcome your flames ;-)

Charles Lucy - lucy@harmonics.com (LucyScaleDevelopments)
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