From: Padraig Breathnach on
barney2(a)cix.compulink.co.uk wrote:

>Why, then, is a major triad such as C4 E4 G4 (with ratios of C4:E4
>1.259921 and E4:G4 1.189204) a building block of Western classical harmony
>- the kind I expect you like if your taste in architecture or art is
>anything to go by, not that it necessarily is - while the combination A0
>A7, with an integer ratio of 128, is not heard terribly often?

It's to do with the size of pianists' hands.

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From: Dave Frightens Me on
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:45:15 -0700, Hatunen <hatunen(a)cox.net> wrote:

>On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:01:13 +0100,
>this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_
>chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote:
>
>>Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hatunen writes:
>>>
>>> > Are youclaiming that everthing you post is reasonable?
>>>
>>> As far as I know, yes.
>>
>>Why are you lying? You know that a lot of what you post is bollocks.
>>British tones, universal rules of music being among examples I remember
>>particularly well.
>
>On several occasions I have credited Mixi with having a sense of
>humor for some nonsense he has posted. I may have been a bit
>hasty there.

It's a bit of shame Mixi is so dysfuntional. His brain seems to work
ok, but he comes out with so much bullshit.
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From: Miss L. Toe on

"Dave Frightens Me" <deepfreudmoors(a)eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote in
message news:lj5nd2pfm1grd4lqjr1l16hvg5j1vgfcdf(a)4ax.com...
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:45:15 -0700, Hatunen <hatunen(a)cox.net> wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:01:13 +0100,
> >this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_
> >chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote:
> >
> >>Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hatunen writes:
> >>>
> >>> > Are youclaiming that everthing you post is reasonable?
> >>>
> >>> As far as I know, yes.
> >>
> >>Why are you lying? You know that a lot of what you post is bollocks.
> >>British tones, universal rules of music being among examples I remember
> >>particularly well.
> >
> >On several occasions I have credited Mixi with having a sense of
> >humor for some nonsense he has posted. I may have been a bit
> >hasty there.
>
> It's a bit of shame Mixi is so dysfuntional. His brain seems to work
> ok, but he comes out with so much bullshit.
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He went looking for gigi and ended up with gigo.


From: barney2 on
In article <1hjvdyo.14oyx5i1sb9j23N%this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.co.uk>,
this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the
royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote:

> *From:* this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_
> chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate)
> *Date:* Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:23:22 +0100
>
> Hatunen <hatunen(a)cox.net> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:01:13 +0100,
> > this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_
> > chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote:
> >
> > >Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hatunen writes:
> > >>
> > >> > Are youclaiming that everthing you post is reasonable?
> > >>
> > >> As far as I know, yes.
> > >
> > >Why are you lying? You know that a lot of what you post is bollocks.
> > >British tones, universal rules of music being among examples I
> > remember
> > >particularly well.
> >
> > On several occasions I have credited Mixi with having a sense of
> > humor for some nonsense he has posted.
>
> He definitely has a sense of humour- it comes through every now and
> again.

There are couple of (deliberately) amusing Mixi-authored parodies on his
atkielski.com Website, under Various Documents.
From: Dave Frightens Me on
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:11:37 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>Dave Frightens Me writes:
>
>> Very intelligent people use structured means of debate, and give up
>> arguing with those who don't.
>
>I haven't seen that. Intelligent people use some structure, of
>course, but not necessarily anything formal. And they tend to have a
>lot of patience, since they've spent their lives explaining things to
>other people.

Intelligent people are no more likely to be patient than anyone else.
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