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Offline pianistimo

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helmholtz
on: October 01, 2006, 09:46:18 PM
apparently there has been some misunderstanding.  helmholtz, the guy who decided how octaves should be written down, has been confused with a scientist who discovered the helmholtz coil.  now, as it happens, i was randomly googling and all of a sudden i had pages of mathematical formulas in front of me. 

what does one google to get the musical helmholtz?
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Re: helmholtz
Reply #1 on: October 01, 2006, 09:48:51 PM
next question:  do different professors of music like different ways of expressing the various octaves/registers?  i thought C1, C2, C3 - on up - was perfectly fine.  is this extremely unacceptable at schools like julliard?  (and west chester, for that matter)?  is helmholtz the final word?
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Re: helmholtz
Reply #2 on: October 01, 2006, 09:59:47 PM
What are you on today??
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Re: helmholtz
Reply #3 on: October 01, 2006, 10:14:56 PM
just answer the question.
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Re: helmholtz
Reply #4 on: October 01, 2006, 10:16:53 PM
Quote from: pianistimo on October 01, 2006, 09:46:18 PM


what does one google to get the musical helmholtz?

hmmmmmmmmm, that is very difficult.

Perhaps musical helmholtz, but i am not sure.

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Re: helmholtz
Reply #5 on: October 01, 2006, 11:16:12 PM
aha.  it's a puzzle.  he is one and the same person!
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Offline sharon_f

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Re: helmholtz
Reply #6 on: October 02, 2006, 01:58:48 AM
google helmholtz octaves
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Re: helmholtz
Reply #7 on: October 02, 2006, 02:52:00 AM
thank you!  i think he is actually one and the same.  a sort of inventor of many things.
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Re: helmholtz
Reply #8 on: October 06, 2006, 07:16:12 PM
Fo Guang University in Taiwan has a fascinating page on Hermann von Helmhlotz. Unfortunately it's in Chinese.
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Re: helmholtz
Reply #9 on: October 06, 2006, 10:46:11 PM
maybe you could translate it for me sometime?  so he IS one and the same.
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