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RE: [tuning] Tuva (was: infinity again)

🔗Paul H. Erlich <PERLICH@ACADIAN-ASSET.COM>

4/20/2000 10:24:01 PM

>>>but octave equivalence does not negate or lessen the effect of the
>>>harmonic.
>
>>Well, I think it lessens it slightly, but I agree that using a nice low
>>fundamental allows you to get dozens of audible harmonics without using
>>octave transposition. Though this is what Scholz did and what Tuvan throat
>>singers do, it's not the norm among most JI composers ...

>You are saying Tuvan throat singers produce notes that are harmonics
>transposed down one or more octaves? Can you expound?

I'm saying they _don't_. Sorry I wrote unclearly.