[Dixielandjazz] Only 8 notes.

[Larry Walton Entertainment]

No but it's in the billions.  Just goes to show how wonderful our brains are
and how difficult it is for a beginner to compute through all that stuff and
why it takes years for us to do even simple things.  Also it points out that
some peoples computers are better than others.
Larry Walton
St. Louis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve barbone" <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 2:21 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Only 8 notes.


> Saw this quote today in a syndicated columnist's piece about "running out
of
> things, e.g. oil.
>
> "When John Stuart Mill was a young man, he worried that we were running
out
> of music, since there were only 8 notes and therefore there was only a
> finite amount of music possible. At that point Brahms and Tchaikowsky  had
> not yet been born nor jazz created."
>
> - Thomas Sowell, Creator's Syndicate.
>
> Nowadays, we seem to have a lot more than 8 notes. :-) VBG.
>
> Has anybody ever  figured out all the permutations possible with the
notes,
> sharps/flats and time signatures? To say nothing of quarter tones etc.,
and
> various methods of attack.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
>
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