I noticed so many spelling mistakes that I"ve posted it again and I"ve added some stuff about the effects of Lucy scale music !!

In the 17th century a man called John Harrison made some clocks so accurate that they where able to be used in working out longitude at sea... in a time when the best clocks were only accurate to within 15 minutes a day he built clocks that could go across the sea to Jamaica and be within minutes over the months of a voyage.

This man had a magnificent idea, that the true scale of music must be made using PI (3.142....)

In fact the two dimensional view of sound is still being taught today even though it is inherently wrong...a string does not vibrate in two dimensions, it moves up and down AND around, when you see a 'sound wave' you are in fact looking at the two dimensional view of a three dimensional moving vortex.. more like a slinky or a corkscrew than a wave.

Harrison realised something about the true nature of things and was a true genius.... his clocks won him the 'kings prize' and saved thousands of lives by bringing security to sea travel.. but his musical scaling system was forgotten about until Charles Lucy discovered his writings in 87...

The writings of John harrison can be found at Charles Lucy's site (www.lucytune.com/) where he simplifies it into this...The essence of what Harrison said is as follows:

"The natural scale of music is associated with the ratio of the diameter of a circle to its circumference." (i.e. pi = 3.141 etc.)
"This scale is based on two intervals;"
1) The Larger note as he calls it; This is a ratio of 2 to the 2*pi root of 2, or in BASIC computer terms 2^(1/(2*pi)), which equals a ratio of 1.116633 or 190.9858 cents, approximately 1.91 frets on a conventional guitar. (L).
2) The lesser note, which is half the difference between five Larger notes (5L) and an octave. i.e.(2/(2^(1/(2*pi)))^5)^(1/2), giving a ratio of 1.073344 or 122.5354 cents, an interval of approx. 1.23 frets. (s).
The equivalent of the fifth (i.e. seventh fret on guitar) is composed of three Large (3L) plus one small note (s) i.e. (3L+s) = (190.986*3) + (122.535) = 695.493 cents or ratio of 1.494412.
The equivalent of the fourth (IV) (fifth fret) is 2L+s = 504.507 cents.

Anyhow how does this relate to this tribe ?.... well the answer is this. Harrison thought it was sacrilegious to worship God with the imperfect conventional scale and he trained a choir to sing in his scale. Knowing the scale as I do I imagine this would have been the most wonderful sound. Truly the lost music of the spheres !!

I play ,write and record music in this scale and I find, for me, that I go off into a weird trancelike state when I do so... much much more effective than anything I have ever seen or heard in the conventional scale, indian music comes a bit closer to it but the Lucy scale is best, it wins hands down. I find it has the same effect at low volumes also which I think means the psycho-acoustic ingredient is in the tuning. Some would say it is the that binaural entrainment that creates the 'alpha states' of consciousness by the effect of sub harmonic beating, imagine all the intervals massaging your brain when you listen to the music... it is like a deep massage for your brain. It is as though when you listen to is you become aware of all the sound around you, and where there where dissonance before there is a unified consonance. I recomend listening to the begining or 'Wood' and 'Fish that swim'

'Wood' www.icompositions.com/music/song.php
"Fish that swim' www.icompositions.com/music/song.php

If you'd like to hear other music on this scale them check out the link to my icompositions site

www.icompositions.com/artists...ssanger1

also my myspace has one on it I think myspace.com/jamessanger

I hope you find it as interesting as I have over the years,

yours sincerely,

James Sanger