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Matt's avatar

He’s back! Great article, and great subject. I think it’s interesting enough to mention that the “ultimate goal” is to play the intervals of the harmonic series (1/1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5...), which is where “harmony” comes from, but we have to quantize them somehow and there’s lots of approaches to that, which results in many tuning systems.

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Sarp Gürakan's avatar

Thank you sir. This is the mathematics behind the "approximation rather than perfection" of the 12-TET. It approximates reasonably well each interval, but none of them perfectly. Meanwhile, as I'm sure you know, something like the "Bach temperament" is a closer approximation of some intervals, such as fifths, while approximating other intervals not as well.

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Jasiel's avatar

I remember Tolgahan!!!

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Sarp Gürakan's avatar

That's true :) He was actually performing at a Spanish institution associated with Berklee last week. But alas, I didn't have an EU visa...

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