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On 1/17/25 08:34, erik simpson wrote:
> On 1/17/25 4:31 AM, John Harshman wrote:
>> On 1/14/25 5:13 PM, erik simpson wrote:
>>> I've just finished reading "Macroevolutionaries" by Lieberman and 
>>> Eldredge.  I recommend it highly.  It's a history extending from the 
>>> beginning of the 19th century to the present of the evolution (no 
>>> pun) of the gradual development of our understanding of evolution 
>>> itself. One of the punctuations (pun intended this time) is the 
>>> brilliance of SJ Gould.
>>>
>>> Some of the more funny chapters involves the evolution of trumpets, 
>>> replete with a mass extinction of valveless trumpets around 1820, 
>>> rapid diversification and eventual slower evolution to the present 
>>> day. Clades can be identified. It seems that biology isn't the only 
>>> thing that "only makes sense as evolution".
>>
>> How do slide trombones fit into the phylogeny? And are horns featured? 
>> Presumably they developed valves at around the same time.
> Trombones were only morphologically different.  Horns were like 
> trumpets, but differed in having three different types of valves so 
> there were even more clades than trumpets.

So.  Double checking.

The music of the spheres is minor mode, right?

This is because 1.5 times the frequency of c is f
sharp or g flat, and is neither f nor g?

(An 'octave' actually has seven notes and not
eight, but is actually 7 + 5 (twelve tones).)

Correct?