Re: A China-Sumer connection

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 03/03/05 

Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:47:46 GMT

Comm wrote:
>
> "Dylan Sung" <dylanwhs.tsktsktsk@pacific.net.hk> wrote in message
> news:38o1isF5lnuijU2@individual.net...
> >
> > "Jacques Guy" <jguy@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
> > news:4226A249.2DAC@alphalink.com.au...
> >> Comm wrote:
> >>> You can divide A 440
> >>> in half - IF YOU KNOW A is 440.
> >>
> >> And if you think A is 420 you can't divide 420 in half, I suppose.
> >> At least, not without the help the Abominable one, Musarus, and his
> >> minions, the anecdotal Annedoti.
> >>
> >> Please tell us Oannes's phone number, for when, next time, we wish to
> >> divide 2 into halves, or to indulge into such arcane mathematical
> >> manipulations as dividing three into thirds. Ta.
> >
> > Well, reading about the physics of vibration and frequency may be helpful
> > for the empirical relationship between one note and another.
> >
> > http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/sound/U11L4d.html
>
> Nice reply to a real idiot. I am a musician. I did the math. 23 cycles
> per second is F sharp 4 octaves below the F sharp that is below A 440 on a
> piano. PERIOD. It's an odd question for someone to even ask me - but the
> question was sincere - I did the math for a sincere person. That was my
> POINT when I mentioned it. Frenchy here is obsessing on it. But then, the
> French are known to be 1. obsessive, 2. real wimps.

You don't have to "do math" anything beyond dividing by 2. If you start
with C it's even easier, since Middle C (a 2' organ pipe) is
conventionally 256.

> He's just stomping his feet and pouting all over the place because HE can't
> figure out what "12th root of 2" might mean - and he probably couldn't
> figure out how to do the math with pencil and paper from scratch. He
> couldn't even get 440 right. He quoted it back as 420 and didn't even
> understand what I said. He's a complete moron.

A = 440 is a very recent standard.

The recent recordings of Stölzel's (contemporary of J. S. Bach) recently
rediscovered masterpieces use A = 392.

> I know he's really got an attitude over those two FRENCH Anthropology
> Professors that fabricated a "history" about some remote African tribe in
> order to be Big Liberals and give them an advanced culture. They got
> exposed, dontcha know? That got to be why he's dragging a science fiction
> genre onto here - and overall being a complete ASS. I know what he's on
> about - that dumb*** Sirius Mystery where that fradulent anthropology by
> two FRENCH academics was taken seriously. There ya go. Poor Jacque. He's
> fuqued. :-D

I don't suppose you'd condescend to explain what you're talking about
_yet again_? 

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Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net
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