source file: m1416.txt Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 00:55:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Odd vs. Prime (Digest 1412 Topic 5) From: Mark Nowitzky Carl, Before tossing Tuning Digest 1412 in the virtual trash can, I wanted to mention this. I loved your description of the 7th harmonic in the following: At 05:56 PM 5/11/98 -0400, you wrote (Digest 1412 Topic 5): >Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 02:58:54 -0700 >From: Carl Lumma >Subject: Odd vs. Prime > >... >2 - sameness >3 - steely coldness >5 - sweetness >7 - flourescent lightingness >[etc] >... I listened once again to my first tuning of "The" Dominant Seventh Chord (from my web page at http://www.pacificnet.net/~nowitzky/justint/dom7.htm), and it sounds EXACTLY like a flourescent lamp--the kind you hear when you're walking to your car in a desolate parking lot, late at night. --Mark P.S.: Bassoons, on a sustained low note, also sometimes sound to me like some sort of electrical problem. (I felt like picking on bassoons 'cuz I got tired of all the trombone jokes.) +------------------------------------------------------+ | Mark Nowitzky | | email: nowitzky@alum.mit.edu | | www: http://www.pacificnet.net/~nowitzky | | "If you haven't visited Mark Nowitzky's home | | page recently, you haven't missed much..." | +------------------------------------------------------+