i wouldn't be surprised in the least to hear that eastern or other notations employed ratios before pythagoras of course
24-TET arabic scale and microtuning, please help.
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- Banned
- 12367 posts since 30 Apr, 2002 from i might peeramid
it is recorded that pythagoras' ratio tuning systems were inspired by hearing a smith hammering with two different sized hammers, leading him to weigh the hammers.
i wouldn't be surprised in the least to hear that eastern or other notations employed ratios before pythagoras of course
i wouldn't be surprised in the least to hear that eastern or other notations employed ratios before pythagoras of course
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
Donno. When was Pythagoras? When is hammer time?xoxos wrote:it is recorded that pythagoras' ratio tuning systems were inspired by hearing a smith hammering with two different sized hammers, leading him to weigh the hammers.
i wouldn't be surprised in the least to hear that eastern or other notations employed ratios before pythagoras of course
ca. 45 BCE Ching Fang in China had calculated the "Arabian Comma". aka the Holdrian Comma.
He stacked 53 natch fifths, transposed 'em down 31 octaves, and the result was to within a ratio of 176777:177147 of the lowest tone. < 23 cents.
some Arab theorists think of the 'rast' maqam (sort of their 'sudddha' or pure scale, kinda sorta natch minor) as multiples of this comma.
x 9, 8, 5, 9, 9, 8, 5.
the basic 'median 3rd' from the tonic is called 'iraq.
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- KVRer
- 20 posts since 11 Dec, 2008
A really good website with detail on many differnt maqamat and iqqat (rythmic structures) is http://www.maqamworld.com .
Its helped me a bunch
Its helped me a bunch