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For our musicians:
Comes
(||Co"mes) n. [L., a companion.] (Mus.) The answer to the theme (dux) in a fugue.
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thanks, Bill. it made me wonder about it's relationship to comma(in musical terms), which I had to look up. I found this at Infoplease(via OneLook, which gave better results than Ultralingua  ): 3. Music.the minute, virtually unheard difference in pitch between two enharmonic tones, as Gsharp and Aflat. apparently, no relationship at all... 
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If you tune a piano, say, by starting at, say, C and tuning pure fifths around the circle of fifths, when you get back to C you will find that the distance from the F to the C is a little flat of a pure fifth. This discrepancy is called the Pythagorean comma. More details for the interested student are here: http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/harmony/pyth.htmlNote especially the section 4.4. The two commas: bugs or features?
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great site! thanks, Fald.
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