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High Third

🔗Gerald Eskelin <stg3music@earthlink.net>

1/23/2000 10:23:58 PM

I wrote,
>
>>BTW, You still haven't responded to my "off the wall" suggestion that the
>>shift in tuning may have to do with the combination of overtones (or
>>undertones) in the tonic and dominant fundamentals. Might that have any
>>relation to this discussion. (If that is a naive notion, just say so and
>>I'll forget it.)

And Paul Erlich clarified:
>
> I did respond to that -- it was the first time I suggested 1/24:1/19:1/16.
> The common overtone of these notes is the dominant, four octaves higher. As
> for undertones, the "undertone series" does not occur in nature as a
> simultaneous event, the way the overtone series does.

Sorry. I guess I either missed it altogether or failed to connect it to my
question. Sorry. I'll try to do better in the future. BTW, thanks for the
info.

Jerry