[AH] Re: [sdiy] Where to get special white keys?

[Simon Brouwer]

cheater cheater schreef:
>> octaves that are 4 tones long and
>> stuff like that!
>>     
>
> I know this sounds dumb, but an octave that is 12 notes long doesn't
> make sense either, 
It doesn't?

By subdividing an octave in 12 semitones you can play chords that sound 
pleasant because harmonics in one note will have the same, or nearly the 
same, frequency as the fundamental or other harmonics in another.

Apparently, musicians have known about this for at least 5500 years.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_tuning


-- 
Vriendelijke groet, 
Simon Brouwer. 

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