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To: Rambi who wrote (235315)	1/20/2008 7:17:32 PM
From: MJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793927

Rambi I haven't heard that specifically---when the computers came out with systems for composing music I tried it and it was as you say lacking in soul. Back to stocks for a moment---------have you read the books of Joseph E. Granville------he unlocked the theory of on- balance- volume as applied to charting and analysis. In his book "Granville's New Key To Stock Market Profits" written 1963 is a chapter "A rhythm of Market Movements" he compares movements in stocks to Beethoven's Fifth, Autumn Leaves, and Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring-----comparing graphically the rise and fall in a song to the rise and fall of a stocks price/volume. mj

To: Rambi who wrote (235315)	1/20/2008 8:41:10 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793927

Just before I got out of college, I supervised a young man who was several years older than I. He was a farm boy and though his was a low-level technical job I quickly discerned that his brain was genius level. I played the guitar a little, so I knew some basic chords. C, A, D, A7, Am, G, Gm, G7, F, Fm, and so forth. Though as a boy I suffered through two years of piano lessons, I could not read music and played my guitar by ear from hearing folk songs of the era. This young man could describe in precise detail the mathematical relationship of every chord that I knew. I had no clue what he was talking about.

To: Rambi who wrote (235315)	1/20/2008 8:49:32 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 793927

A church I once attended had the loan of a small pipe organ. Our organist fell in love with the thing. He said the pipe organ had little reverberations outside of the precise mathematical construct of each note, thereby providing the rich tones we associate with pipe organs. When the owner reclaimed the pipe organ and the church could not purchase another like it, the organist quit. He could no longer abide an electric organ. Some said it was idolatry. I don't know. He had a point. On another note, traveling by air in the late 60s, I sat next to a fellow and we struck up a conversation. I worked with and knew about computers, which were bloody hard to use at the time. He said he was working on an organ driven by computer software, and thought he might be rich some day. No doubt he is, because you can buy those things pretty cheap right now.