source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 10:11:25 -0700 Subject: RE: Post from McLaren From: PAULE Brian, >Paul Erlich stated in Tuning Digest 718 that subharmonics are >not present in the spectra of acoustic instruments. Perhaps the double space reveals the fact that Brian you the word "normally" between "not" and "present." Didn't I qualify this to say that apparant subharmonics can result when a note is itself a harmonic, i.e., all notes on brass instruments? You're right though, I haven't done any actual fourier analysis of musical instruments. I've done lost of fourier analysis, though, like transforming from position space to momentum space on quantum mechanics exams. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle results from the fact that the fourier transform of a Gaussian is a Gaussian. As for factual errors, your post on meantone tuning was full of 'em. One Tuning Digest consisted entirely of my slam of that post. Care to reply? If I am expected to get your CPS/SCALA joke, surely it is not unreasonable for me to expect you to take my critical comments with a sense of humor, or for someone else to compare you with their antisemitic uncle without fearing a libel charge. Peace, Love, and Music, Paul Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 19:12 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA27085; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 10:12:48 -0700 Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 10:12:48 -0700 Message-Id: <34960627170943/0005695065PK5EM@MCIMAIL.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu