source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 17:05:09 -0700 Subject: Stahnke's tuning From: John Chalmers Re Tuning Digest 861 and Georg Hajdu's post: The synthesizer tuning of Manfred Stanhke's "Partch Harp" appears to be audibly equivalent to the 14th root of 35/16. The 12th root of 1.9560685 is 96.795689 cents and the 14th root of 35/16 is 96.795687 cents to the precision of my hand calculator. It's no wonder that the 5/4 and 7/4 are closely approximated by this non-octaval tuning. The interval 1.9560685/1 has 1161.54827 cents, about 30 31sts of a 2/1 (1 degree of 31-tet flat). --John Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 02:05 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA14975; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 02:07:13 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA14836 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA10432; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 17:07:10 -0700 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 17:07:10 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu