On 08/07/05, Ken Durling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 02:44 PM 7/8/2005, you wrote: > > >Well, standard metronomes don't have 69 as a setting, but the > >original marking was 60.75, not 69.75. > > My Seiko quartz, which I consider a standard goes 60, 63, 66, 69, 72 > etc. So have the last 2 or 3 metronomes I've owned - covering the last > 15 years or so. And many modern metronomes allow you to go digit by > digit. But you're right about the original citation.
If you're interested in the way the numbers on "standard metronomes" were derived, John Greschak has a great explanation of Maelzel's metronome scale in his "Tempo Scales in Polytempo Music" article: http://www.greschak.com/polytempo/ptts.htm -- Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] my blog: http://augmentedfourth.blogspot.com Life would be so much easier if only (3/2)^12=(2/1)^7. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
