18th century England - response to 2 odd comments in the latest tuning digest

I appreciate that Britain is an extremely unpopular country at present,
(with good justification after its naive support of the major warmonger).

Since I am in London, at present, I feel I should put the record straight on England related postings.

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| , and
| different solutions. clearly you're treating as *sharp* certain
| quantities that were only *fuzzy* in the practical-minded but
| scientifically primitive 18th century.
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John Harrison must have been the exception. He specified his meantone extremely precisely, when he applied his navigation skills to "frequency mapping" for music.

<start quote 2>
| not sure what "the england" has to do with mozart,
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Mozart did live in England; actually here in Pimlico;
but it seems that the economy and weather on this island, eventually wiped him out.

Now which Mahler symphony was I attempting to analyse and LucyTune?
I began on 7th, and then found the midi files were for 5th.
Back to the library for more Mahler scores;-)

Charles Lucy - lucy@harmonics.com (LucyScaleDevelopments)
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