Bohlen began to question and investigate tunings in the early 1970s when a friend and graduate student at the Hamburg Hochschule für Musik und Theater asked him to begin recording concerts at the school. Bohlen asked students why all their music used twelve-tone equal temperament, including the octave, and, dissatisfied with the answers, began to investigate alternate tunings.[1]
heinz, bohlen, heinz, bohlen, june, 1935, february, 2016, citation, needed, microwave, electronics, communications, engineer, designed, described, numerous, octave, musical, scales, alternative, musical, tunings, temperaments, many, based, combination, tones, . Heinz P Bohlen 26 June 1935 2 February 2016 citation needed 1 2 was a microwave electronics and communications engineer He designed and described numerous non octave musical scales alternative musical tunings and temperaments many based on combination tones including the Bohlen Pierce scale in 1972 independently discovered by John R Pierce in 1984 also a microwave electronics and communications engineer six years later and Kees van Prooijen in 1978 3 the A12 scale and the 833 cents scale Bohlen began to question and investigate tunings in the early 1970s when a friend and graduate student at the Hamburg Hochschule fur Musik und Theater asked him to begin recording concerts at the school Bohlen asked students why all their music used twelve tone equal temperament including the octave and dissatisfied with the answers began to investigate alternate tunings 1 Sources edit a b Heinz Bohlen Bohlen Pierce Conference org BP2010 Heinz Bohlen Lecture 1of3 on YouTube the two sic inventors of the bohlen pierce scale Archived 2012 04 26 at the Wayback Machine ZiaSpace com nbsp nbsp This German engineer inventor or industrial designer biographical article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Heinz Bohlen amp oldid 968515207, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
