Re: [tuning] Digest Number 6627-Greek tuning Spreadsheet

George, et al: Barbour is not entirely correct-- the enharmonic he ascribes to Eratosthenes is actually Ptolemy's. The second Didymos tuning should say Harmonic, not Geometric division and I agree that it is unlikely. I have no idea why Barbour omitted Didymos's enharmonic from the main table.

--John

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "John H. Chalmers" <JHCHALMERS@...> wrote:
>
> George, et al: Barbour is not entirely correct-- the enharmonic he
> ascribes to Eratosthenes is actually Ptolemy's.

Oops!

> The second Didymos
> tuning should say Harmonic, not Geometric division

You're quite right! I noticed that after I sent the message and was checking to ensure that the link to the spreadsheet worked.

> and I agree that it
> is unlikely. I have no idea why Barbour omitted Didymos's enharmonic
> from the main table.

Ah, yes, I see it there on page 8, chapter 2, of _Divisions of the Tetrachord_.

Thanks for pointing these things out.

--George