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Re: [motm] "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"

2000-04-19 by Aardvark1@aol.com

In a message dated 4/19/00 9:58:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
ken.tkacs@... writes:

<< (Hmm, couldn't get that 'twelfth root of 2' thing to work properly. Maybe
 that's not the right calculation for successive equal tempered pitches...
 that's what my Handel book 'Listening' said it was, though. I went ahead and
 plugged in true values for the first octave manually, and then duplicated
 them upward...very inelegant though.) >>

Hmmm.... sounds like a math challange!!! Since you've provided a speadsheet 
with all the answers maybe I can tweak the calculation... Which column(s) are 
you taking the 12th root of 2of ? Can you send the calculation the way it is 
written in the book?
I really like the frequency counter idea!!!

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