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Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought
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John Mandereau |
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Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought |
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Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:05:36 +0100 |
Le mercredi 23 janvier 2008 à 10:55 -0800, Graham Percival a écrit :
> > > 2008/1/22, Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> > >
> > > > I agree; I've never encountered the term "half-flats". But maybe
> > > > it's a European thing? (or a poor translation from the
> > > > appropriate terms in Dutch or French or something?)
"Half-flat" perfectly makes sense, as a flat is a semi-tone and we want
to name a quarter tone i.e. a half of a half tone). However,
"quarter-flat" may have been already too much used to allow using
anything else... Well, never mind about this, it's just a too rational
thought from a math student :-)
> Mostly jokingly. I spent 60 seconds looking through the history
> before suggesting it here, but decided that I wasn't /that/
> curious.
>
> > (which is how I suspect it crept into ours).
>
> Actually, I doubt that. I can't see Han-Wen looking up musical
> terms in wikipedia... especially four or five years ago when the
> original docs were written.
I'm curious to know whether Han-Wen has looked up this in a serious
reference... that would make a good reason to keep the mathematically
correct terms in our docs :-p
Cheers,
John
- Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought, (continued)
- Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought, Trevor Bača, 2008/01/22
- Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought, Graham Percival, 2008/01/22
- Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought, Damian leGassick, 2008/01/22
- Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought, Valentin Villenave, 2008/01/23
- Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought, Trevor Bača, 2008/01/23
- Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought, Graham Percival, 2008/01/23
- Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought,
John Mandereau <=
- Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought, Kieren MacMillan, 2008/01/24
- Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought, John Mandereau, 2008/01/24
- Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought, Graham Percival, 2008/01/24