Voice is a harmonic timbre. If you could sing with inharmonic partials that perfect 5th would not sound so consonant. And this is relevant even in Western musi

Voice is a harmonic timbre. If you could sing with inharmonic partials that perfect 5th would not sound so consonant. And this is relevant even in Western music. The piano is technically tuned percussion, and although it's very close to harmonic, it's inharmonic enough that you have to deviate from small integer ratios (beyond any deviation required for tempered scales) if you want the most consonant sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretched_tuning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretched_tuning