Klarinet Archive - Posting 000506.txt from 1999/02

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Musical/mathematical interview
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 01:23:58 -0500

On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Doug Sears wrote:

> >I forgot to mention in my original message that there is evidence that
> >Bach thought the numbers 14 and 5 were very important to him. (Fourteen
> >because that is the total number of letters in his first, middle and last
> >names, and five because the digits of "14" add to make 5
>
> I'm having trouble making that add up to 14. Perhaps it was "J. Sebastian
> Bach"?

Well, upon recounting, the letters in his name obviously don't add up to
14. Now I've got to try to figure out where the number 14 comes from. It
might be as you suggest above, with one initial and the full middle and
last names. I'll see if I can find the reference.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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