Re: error in Vysh

B IS B flat, right?

Joseph L Monzo wrote:

> From: Joseph L Monzo <monz@juno.com>
>
> [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".

Rick Sanford wrote:
>
> From: Rick Sanford <rsanf@pais.org>
>
> B IS B flat, right?
>
> Joseph L Monzo wrote:
>
> > From: Joseph L Monzo <monz@juno.com>
> >
> > [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".
>

Actually, in the German nomenclature B refers to what we call b-flat
and H refers to b-natural.

Cheers,

Jon Southwood
noj@cedar-rapids.net