[plt-scheme] music theory (was Natural numbers)

From: Prabhakar Ragde (plragde at uwaterloo.ca)
Date: Thu Mar 12 10:47:10 EDT 2009

Jos Koot wrote:

> I am not sure that bach used the nowadays equally tempered scale for Das 
> Whol Temperierte Klavier (I have been told differently once by a music 
> teacher)

Bach, a man of taste, probably realized that well-tempered frequencies 
and string divisions could be expressed with exact numbers in Scheme, 
whereas equal-tempered frequencies and string divisions would require 
inexact numbers. --PR


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