well the book longnitude has them accurate to a few seconds a month on a heavily pitching ship (though captain cook (discoverer of Australia) had 17 of them on board) traditional grandfather type clocks are probbably on the order of a second or 2 per day ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Tweed" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 11:39 PM Subject: Re: [PIC]: A metronome project > Olin Lathrop wrote: > > > actually a 1% difference can be pretty noticiblle > > > though mainly in concert with other players but it could throw the > > > "feel" of a piece off. > > > > I doubt the old fashioned spring/pendulum metronomes were that accurate. > > Why? Pendulum clocks (same basic technology) are at least an order of > magnitude more accurate than that (1 min/day or better). > > -- Dave Tweed > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics > (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics