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| Jul 17, 2014 at 20:10 | comment | added | user1449 | The harmonic series is really a physical property of particular kinds of sound-making objects, such as idealised strings with no lateral stiffness. Stiffer strings, as on a piano, have some 'disharmonicity', or a slightly different relationship between the fundamental and overtones. Metal percussion instruments and bells differ even more from the harmonic series' integer ratios. This page argues that the disharmonicity of gamelan instruments influences the set of intervals in the /pelog/ scale, which includes octaves, but not fifths. | |
| Jul 11, 2014 at 18:13 | comment | added | TaylorSwiftFan5932 | I don't think this answers the question. The question is not if the octave and fifth intervals are being used, the question is if octaves, fifths, fourths, and thirds are considered consonant in other music cultures. Also, you only talk about two intervals, what about fourths and thirds? What is the view of other cultures regarding those four intervals? Are they considered equally consonant? What's the array of distinctions given to those intervals? Which cultures are these? | |
| Jul 11, 2014 at 15:35 | history | answered | slim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |