Timeline for Equal temperament
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| Oct 1, 2016 at 6:40 | comment | added | phoog | @BrianChandler I'm quite sure that a frequency ratio of 8409/5000 will also be perceived as a major sixth, as will 9999/5999. | |
| Sep 27, 2016 at 4:41 | comment | added | Brian Chandler | Your ear can distinguish any sufficiently different frequencis, but it can't "hear" them as a particular (harmonising) interval unless the ratios is one of small integers, so that for example a major 6th is a 5:3 ratio. ~~~~ | |
| Sep 25, 2016 at 19:03 | comment | added | user30360 | When you say: “in practice the fractions much be made from fairly small integers, otherwise you can't recognize the "just intonation" by ear” do you (also) mean ‘otherwise you can't distinguish the sounds by ear. If not, why? | |
| Sep 25, 2016 at 4:38 | comment | added | Brian Chandler | 103 being prime is (largely) irrelevant -- this tuning system would repeat notes every 1200 octaves, but a 49-cent step would also repeat every 1200 octaves. In practice, the way the ear works (physics and maths) means that any scale will repeat notes every octave. | |
| Sep 25, 2016 at 0:26 | history | answered | user19146 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |