In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Darcy James
Argue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>On 14 Oct 2004, at 07:48 PM, dhbailey wrote:
>>
>> In the series on C, don't the overtones go C, C, G, C, E, G ?
>
>Yeah, but it doesn't stop there.
>
>Continuing from where you left off:  Bb, C, D, E, F#.
>
>The Bb and F# are out of tune (by equal-tempered tuning standards).
>
>- Darcy

and in several other tuning systems.  Kirnberger suggested c.1790
calling the interval from the 4th to the 7th harmonic the "harmonic
seventh".  I think of the flat F# as "bagpipe tuning", because the
Scottish great pipes use it.

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Ken Moore
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