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I agree... ugly, but based in the root of two. It makes sense to use the powers of two because you can literally remember the frequencies of C through octaves,
by ofou 5y ago
I agree... ugly, but based in the root of two. It makes sense to use the powers of two because you can literally remember the frequencies of C through octaves, C0=16Hz, C4=256Hz, can you do that with 440hz?
I don't see any advantage of using an arbitrary frequency such as 440 oscillations per second for A instead.
- colejohnson66 5y agoAnd yet you arbitrarily choose to base your system on C. With A, I can say A1=55, A2=110, A3=220, A4=440. C isn’t any more special than A except maybe scientific notation being based on C. Your argument seems to hinge on being able to know the frequency of a specific “C”, but how often is that necessary?
- ofou 5y agoWhen Tuning acoustic instruments for example.
- colejohnson66 5y agoThe simple solution is a chromatic tuner that displays the note and octave. If I want to tune a guitar’s low E string, I just pluck it until my tuner says I’m at E2. Sure, it assumes A440, but I don’t need to know the actual frequencies of E2, A2, D3, etc., so I don’t care to use any other A4.