Just wanted to say, thank you for the detailed response, I suppose my comment looks a bit glib in comparison. I appreciate this perspective- I knew about some b

Just wanted to say, thank you for the detailed response, I suppose my comment looks a bit glib in comparison. I appreciate this perspective- I knew about some basic elements of tuning and acoustics, but it's fascinating that there's this much structure that you can study in it, I understand the interest. It reminds me a bit of regular polygons or simple geometry like circles- and it makes sense the Greeks would be interested in both- things that are pleasant and can combine and tile well because of their symmetric and regular properties. I think my "pushback" was more just at the phrasing of "why" something sounds "good"- I do think when we listen to music, we bring our past and our culture into it, and whether a chord sounds "sad" or "happy" depends on a lot more than just the harmonic structure- I wonder about this concept of "tension" you bring up, I can't tell if you mean something emotional or more mechanical. Is that like something you understand just by crunching the numbers on the ratios?