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Sadly this article - seemingly an objective mathematical treatment of tuning - is simplistic to the point of worthlessness. No mention is made of stretched tuni
by riccardopa 7y ago
Sadly this article - seemingly an objective mathematical treatment of tuning - is simplistic to the point of worthlessness. No mention is made of stretched tuning, inharmonicity, or psycho-acoustic treatments of tuning. I expected more from Scientific American.
- jacobolus 7y agoIt’s a blog post by a mathematician who knows more about pure mathematics than music, and is riffing about a conversation she had with a Girl Scout troop. We shouldn’t be expecting that to be equivalent to a PhD thesis about musical harmony or whatever.
- coherentpony 7y agoI think your expectations are too high.
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