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Re: For Michael Zapf -- Re: [tuning] Ibn Sina’s mujannab

🔗Ozan Yarman <ozanyarman@superonline.com>

8/29/2005 6:55:19 AM

I wonder how Arel-Ezgi system deals with that obnoxious interval: 13/12.

----- Original Message -----
From: c_ml_forster
To: tuning@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 29 Ağustos 2005 Pazartesi 16:38
Subject: For Michael Zapf -- Re: [tuning] Ibn Sina’s mujannab

Dear Michael,

Here are the eight ratios on the Bamm (the lowest string) of Ibn
Sina's `ud:

Open: 1/1

Fret 1: 273/256

Fret 2: 13/12

Fret 3: 9/8

Fret 4: 32/27

Fret 5: 39/32

Fret 6: 81/64

Fret 7: 4/3

Farmer's English translation of Ibn Sina's `ud tuning description
appears in:

Farmer, H.G. (1978). _Studies in Oriental Musical Instruments,
First and Second Series_. Longwood Press Ltd., Tortola, British
Virgin Islands

Sincerely,

Cris Forster, Music Director
www.Chrysalis-Foundation.org