I quit

I have lurked on this site for a long time before posting. I have
learned some very interesting things by doing so. I loved the recent
discussion of absolute pitch perception, for example. But I resisted
posting because I dislike contentiousness and I have seen a lot of that
on this forum.

When the subject of the srutis came up I overcame my resistance to
posting because I thought I had something useful to add. However, from
my perspective the whole dialog around the srutis has become unpleasant
and surprisingly ridiculous, as well as pointless and unproductive.

I'm sorry I ever got involved in this discussion. If anyone wants to
make use of the table of srutis that I offered, you're welcome to do
so. I think you'll find it useful if you're serious about
understanding the srutis.

I will now retire back to lurker status. Thanks to all of you for
indulging my brief presence here.

Hi Mark,

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "ma1973" <marcsavage73@...> wrote:
>
> I have lurked on this site for a long time before posting.
> I have learned some very interesting things by doing so.
> I loved the recent discussion of absolute pitch perception,
> for example. But I resisted posting because I dislike
> contentiousness and I have seen a lot of that on this forum.
>
> When the subject of the srutis came up I overcame my
> resistance to posting because I thought I had something
> useful to add. However, from my perspective the whole
> dialog around the srutis has become unpleasant and
> surprisingly ridiculous, as well as pointless and
> unproductive.
>
> I'm sorry I ever got involved in this discussion. If
> anyone wants to make use of the table of srutis that
> I offered, you're welcome to do so. I think you'll
> find it useful if you're serious about understanding
> the srutis.
>
> I will now retire back to lurker status. Thanks to all
> of you for indulging my brief presence here.

I, for one, found your post with the Indian ratios
most welcome. It seems that you thought i was being
contentious, but that was never my intention. I was
merely posting something else that i thought was a
useful contribution to the subject.

I thought it was kind of weird that *you* fought against
*my* ideas so strongly. Anyway, i'm glad it didn't
quite become a flame-war. Hopefully other readers will
find both of our contributions useful for their own
purposes.

-monz
http://tonalsoft.com
Tonescape microtonal music software

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monz wrote:
> I, for one, found your post with the Indian ratios
> most welcome.

I also thought it was useful. I was tempted to comment about the so-called "srutal" (aka "diaschismic") temperament and how it (or rather, its corresponding Fokker periodicity block) seems to be a better fit than magic[22], with the exception of the three "ati ati komal" intervals, but I've been super busy lately and haven't had a lot of free time to comment on anything. I was going to look around for a better periodicity block that includes the three extra intervals, but wasn't sure where to start.