source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 17:48:57 -0700 Subject: Re: The magnificent seventh... From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@compuserve.com> Since he referenced the list and the xenharmonic community in general. I suspect that Pat intended this to head off to the list rather than just me. (It's a mistake I've made at least twice that I can recall.) --------------- Forwarded Message --------------- From: Pat Missin, INTERNET:patm@globalnet.co.uk To: Gary Morrison, 71670,2576 Date: 2 Sep 1996 , 12:34 PM RE: Re: The magnificent seventh... Sender: patm@globalnet.co.uk Received: from gollum.globalnet.co.uk (gollum.globalnet.co.uk [194.126.80.109]) by arl-img-1.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id NAA11913; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 13:32:40 -0400 Received: from client8407.globalnet.co.uk (client8407.globalnet.co.uk [194.126.84.7]) by gollum.globalnet.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA11267 for <71670.2576@CompuServe.COM>; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 18:33:55 +0100 Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 18:33:55 +0100 Message-Id: <199609021733.SAA11267@gollum.globalnet.co.uk> X-Sender: patm@mail.globalnet.co.uk X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@CompuServe.COM> From: Pat Missin Subject: Re: The magnificent seventh... At 11:56 01/09/96 EDT, you wrote: >> The draw chord of the standard diatonic harmonica is traditionally tuned >> 4/5/6/7 > > Oooo. I didn't know that. > > Seeing as a large percentage of the tunings list goes right over my head, I'm never too sure how relevant and/or interesting my opinions and experiences are! However, seeing that in terms of units sold, the harmonica is the most popular instrument ever manufactured (Hohner made their *billionth* harmonica a few years back), it must have had some effect on the ears of the many people who have encountered it. I think it is threfore of interest to the xenharmonic community that the traditional tuning of the harmonica gives a theoretical scale of: 8/9 4/5 16/21 2/3 16/27 8/15 1/2 Regards, Pat Missin - patm@globalnet.co.uk "...my music's a lot better than it sounds!" (with apologies to Mark Twain) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 08:07 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA20336; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 08:08:49 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA20412 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id XAA01169; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:08:41 -0700 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:08:41 -0700 Message-Id: <199609050207_MC1-947-F969@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu