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Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought


From: John Mandereau
Subject: Re: GDP: NR 1.1 Pitches vastly improved, more comments sought
Date: 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





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