3 Dec
1999
3 Dec
'99
9:11 a.m.
At 11:18 AM 12/3/99 +0000, Philip.Belben(a)pgen.com wrote:
Hey, I'd not spotted that. Yes, gamelan music is
very binary: although
the very
slowest pulse (marked by the gong ageng) may not be a
binary multiple of the
next one up (gong suwukan, which is what I think I have), all the others are
indeed binary subdivisions. One characteristic of gamelan music is that it
There's also some sentiment opposed to the separation of the gong
from the rest of the set; it's regarded as a
central part of the
spirit of the collection of instruments. It's akin to
putting a
core memory on the wall, I think. :-)
I don't know any Japanese so I can't comment.
But German has a tendency to a
verb on the stack, rather than say it, and leave it there until you've
what the
sentence is about forgotten, put :-)
Mark Twain pointed out that sometimes German sentences were so long
that verbs were carried over into the next edition of the publication.
- John