source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 15:37:54 -0700 Subject: Chinese Temperament again From: "John H. Chalmers" Re Chinese music theory: Harry Partch (Genesis of a Music) quotes J. Murray Barbour's unpublished dissertation, not the version published as "Tuning and Temperament" and uses a somewhat different scheme to transliterate Chinese into English. He credits Ho Tcheng-Tien (circa 370-447 CE) with the first approximation to the 12-tet octave. Partch says that Prince Chu Tsai-yu" gave the string lengths for 12-tet in 1596 accurate to 9 places under the title Lu" Lu" Ching I. Barbour is the source for the claim that such computations would require numbers with up to 108 zeros (I think I said 105 in my last post). Barbour also said that pipes tuned to Chu's method would each contain 100 fewer grains of millet than the preceeding, an anticipation of Ellis's "cents." However, this may be purely theoretical as no end correction was mentioned. --John Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 06:05 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA01366; Sun, 15 Oct 1995 21:05:13 -0700 Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 21:05:13 -0700 Message-Id: <01HWHKTN5SK29EDN4E@delphi.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu