I really passionately hate the “there’s only 12 notes” argument. There’s “only” 26 letters in the alphabet but you don’t see people arguing that your bound to

I really passionately hate the “there’s only 12 notes” argument. There’s “only” 26 letters in the alphabet but you don’t see people arguing that your bound to write identical poems to others by random chance There are obviously more to it than that with music. But I just feel like whoever tries to argue “few notes”=“random copying is common” just don’t understand just how big the space of possible combinations of a few common building blocks is.