source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 13:48:45 -0800 Subject: Re: Hello From: Matt Nathan I'm new to the tuning list, but not to the exploration of pitch, and wanted to say hello and that I'll be reading along. I was wondering also if anybody knows the email addresses of either of theses people: 1) Dudley Duncan 2) Glen Frantz My opinion on the wolves v. wolfs subject is this: The term "wolves" is inappropriate in a musical context. It's a special word reserved for the plural of certain animals. A comparative illustration is found in the words "lice" (insect parasites) and "louses" (dispicable persons). You wouldn't call entrenched politicians "lice". Well, maybe you would. :) The plural of wolf tone (in the context of an unwanted resonance in the body of an acoustic instrument) is wolf tones. The plural of wolf interval (in the context of the aesthetic effect caused by not having enough pitches on an instrument or in a tuning system, and misusing the closest available pitches as surrogates) is wolf intervals. If either of these plurals must be compressed into one word, the logical choice is "wolfs". Matt Nathan Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 23:15 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA30834; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 23:10:23 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA28398 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA02121; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 14:10:19 -0800 Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 14:10:19 -0800 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19961208140610.0068fbf8@adnc.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu