source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 09:39:43 -0800 Subject: "Pitch, Pi,"...hmmm... From: "Jonathan M. Szanto" Ouch; $330 for the book. Paula Barbieri's still got a ways to go! Seriously folks: are there technical books in other fields that ask this much of a sacrifice? With the possible exception of the truly monumental tomes of our time? Each volume of the (currently) 3-volume series of Donald Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" weighs in at $46.95, and I daresay one chapter of "Fundamental Algorithms" would yield as many great nuggets of human discovery as most any tuning book. Isn't (aren't) tunings simply the raw materials from which the 'magic' is molded from? What cookbook could sell listing only ingredients? To be fair, I'm going to check out the websites Mr. Lucy is providing to see more about this. At present, it does seem to redefine hubris. Or rachet it up a bit... Cheers, Jon *------------------------------------------------------------------* Jonathan M. Szanto | The ferment that Partch started . . . . . . Corporeal Meadows | . . . . . . . . . . is online in the Meadow jszanto@adnc.com | http://www.adnc.com/web/jszanto/welcome.html *------------------------------------------------------------------* Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 21:22 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA23671; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 21:22:43 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA23715 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id MAA19154; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 12:20:49 -0800 Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 12:20:49 -0800 Message-Id: <199702032018.MAA18908@ella.mills.edu> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu