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I don't want to toot my horn ! but I am a musician with most of a four year degree before I dropped out. I was checking out the web site, very cool. I have always thought that the five chimed horns were tuned in a non repeating series of tones like 1, 3, 5, 7, 9. (1through 8 = an octave), and the three toned horns were augmented (#5), or suspended4 (#3). But on the web site, it says the horns were all tuned to major chords - 1,3,5,7,1 or 1,3,5. Except they are all tuned with "inverted" voicing - 3,5,7,1,3 or 3,5,1. It says that because of lack of maintenance, the tunings of individual horns would drift, giving the odd chords. What I thought was augmented or suspended, was actually diminished because the 3rd is in the bass, I'm saying that only to cover my *** if someone who knows music asks "how can it be augmented, because the horns are going flat with time?" - instead of the 5th going sharp, the 1st (a distance of six between 3 and 1) went flat, and it says on the site that the horns go flat with time. Anyhow, its interesting to note that the inverted tuning of a dominent 7 chord (3,5,7,1,3), puts the 7 right in the middle. As far as frequency in hz goes, the seven in this position splits the diference between the low 3 and the high 3 exactly, and the five and the one which are usually the strongest tones in a chord, "take a step back" to the sound of the odd diminished fifth (b5).[:-^]
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