> On Jan 8, 2017, at 2:36 PM, Rob MacKillop <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good point, Howard. But still, twenty seconds is a long time. I am > certainly only interested in the time before clashing with the next > note or notes takes place, and that of course depends on the passage of > music. But generally speaking, even if we halve Mersenne's twenty > seconds, that is still much longer than even the Savarez string.
And what do we make of Mersenne’s range of ten to twenty seconds/heartbeats? What’s he actually telling us? Some strings ten, others twenty? Useable sustain ten, total duration twenty? Results for one string were inconsistent? Depends on your heart rate? I’m sure we can up with a bunch of plausible interpretations, but in the end the information seems too uncertain to base any solid conclusion on it. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
