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pythagoras: aha! musical harmony is governed by the ratios of small integers! how beautiful. how glorious. i will make this fact the centerpiece of my entire worldview
whoever invented equal temperament: lol what if we just used powers of uhhh the twelfth root of two instead
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pythagoras: the w h a t
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I find these "key descriptions" to be merely an echo of the music the writer was exposed to.
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basically none of the music of the 20th century would be possible without equal temperament
a keyboard in JI couldn't even play in all these keys
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