User talk:Bill.Flavell

Equal Temperament
Welcome to Wikipedia! I see that you have some interest in improving the articles on tuning and music theory. You may wish to join the Wikiproject Tunings, Temperaments, and Scales. I have comments about the edits you have made so far, though:


 * I guess this would be the best place to address specific properties of the 12TET tuning system that I have not yet seen/heard anybody address before. I would just like to add that the 12TET tuning system is BOTH inherently bi-tonal AND bi-sub-scalar, which means that any asymmetrical sub-scale is only significant in relation to it's "nested" (aligned/sandwiched in the minimum pitch/registral space) inversion. To treat an asymmetrical sub-scale like the 7-tone diatonic major scale as a monolithic unity is conceptually wrong and NOT 12TET-specific, as it should be.

I have reverted your two edits to Equal temperament and Chromatic scale, for two reasons. The first (and primary) reason is that they were phrased as comments to the editors, which belong on the talk pages. (Every wikipedia article has an associated "talk" page used for discussing the article. You can find the link to the talk page in the tabs at the top of any article.) The second reason is that you claim to want to talk about things that haven't been discussed before, which will by its nature violate Wikipedia's policy on original research. I'm not so strict about policy myself, as long as what you say is verifiably true it might be worth keeping, but if your goal is specifically to present new ideas, well, Wikipedia isn't really the place (as per that policy). If you're really interested in publishing your ideas, you should submit to the relevant journals, or start your own webpage. However, if you want to talk about the subject with other interested people, the article talk pages as quite appropriate (go ahead and start a conversation at Talk:Equal temperament.

Finally, when adding to articles, please avoid language that is so heavily dependant on technical jargon. What you wrote isn't even within the normal music theory grad student vocabulary; if you just throw out terms like "bi-sub-scalar", only a few people who have read specific papers are going to understand the term. (And these few well-read people aren't likely going to be looking to Wikipedia to learn new ideas about equal temperament.) - Rainwarrior 06:16, 6 October 2006 (UTC)