From: Padraig Breathnach on 10 Aug 2006 16:25 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. -- PB The return address has been MUNGED My travel writing: http://www.iol.ie/~draoi/
From: Dave Frightens Me on 10 Aug 2006 16:29 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. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Miss L. Toe on 10 Aug 2006 16:30 "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. > -- He went looking for gigi and ended up with gigo.
From: barney2 on 10 Aug 2006 16:31 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 10 Aug 2006 16:33
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. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |