source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 07:48:10 -0800 Subject: Beethoven and C#/Db From: Gary Morrison -------------------- Begin Original Message -------------------- Message text written by INTERNET:tuning@ella.mills.edu "Now, surely everybody who reads this list is aware that C# and Db are physically identical on a piano. Since Beethoven probably also knew this, what did he mean when he said that they were different ?" -------------------- End Original Message -------------------- Beethoven may not have been commenting on how they sounded on a piano, but on instruments of more flexible pitch. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 19:05 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA10249; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 19:05:04 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA10288 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id KAA29842; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 10:03:20 -0800 Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 10:03:20 -0800 Message-Id: <3322FAD2.587B@dial.pipex.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu