helmholtz

[pianistimo]

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?

[pianistimo]

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?

[thalbergmad]

What are you on today??

[pianistimo]

just answer the question.

[thalbergmad]

what does one google to get the musical helmholtz?

hmmmmmmmmm, that is very difficult.

Perhaps musical helmholtz, but i am not sure.

Thal

[pianistimo]

aha.  it's a puzzle.  he is one and the same person!

[sharon_f]

google helmholtz octaves

[pianistimo]

thank you!  i think he is actually one and the same.  a sort of inventor of many things.

[pianolist]

Fo Guang University in Taiwan has a fascinating page on Hermann von Helmhlotz. Unfortunately it's in Chinese.

[pianistimo]

maybe you could translate it for me sometime?  so he IS one and the same.