source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 05:37:07 -0800 Subject: Music of Spheres -> Pi -> LucyTuning ? From: Gary Morrison Something like a week ago or so, Charles Lucy said something that I've been meaning to comment upon. I apologize if, since I didn't save the message, I am misquoting him, but he said something to the effect that, "certainly if you're interested in a music of the spheres, pi is a natural basis for the tuning of that music". Charles, there's a term for that: "Fuzzy thinking". You're saying that if music has something to do with spheres, spheres are related to the number pi, then since LucyTuning has something to do with pi, clearly music of the spheres implies the use of LucyTuning. That's conclusion is meaningless unless the relationship between pi and spheres is the same as, or a clear consquence of, the relationship between pi and LucyTuning. If those two relationships bear no resemblance to one another, then the mere fact that they both use the number pi is uninteresting. Are you equally prepared to suggest that LucyTuning must be rendered on computers because LucyTuning's octaves bear power-of-two frequency relationships to one another, and computers use a power-of-two place-value (i.e., binary) number system? Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 14:58 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA18070; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 14:58:30 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA18081 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id FAA27093; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 05:52:20 -0800 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 05:52:20 -0800 Message-Id: <199703260816_MC2-134D-AB36@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu