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Good enough. Also - the notation in question is confusing and overcomplicated, and ignoring corner cases makes a lot of sense if you don't care about outliers.
by ajuc 9y ago
Good enough.
Also - the notation in question is confusing and overcomplicated, and ignoring corner cases makes a lot of sense if you don't care about outliers.
It's not like that notation handles all kinds of music well anyway.
- rmetzler 9y agoYes, exactly. The well temperated musical tuning [0] is "good enough". it's an approximation. Some pitches for notes sound almost the same and that's why they today are represented with the same key on a piano. > For some reason I don't totally understand, some have 2 names (e.g. C#=Db, D#=Eb, F#=Gb, A#=Bb). [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_temperament https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_temperament Some famous music for the well temperament: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well-Tempered_Clavier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well-Tempered_Clavier