Fact Check - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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Fact Check
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Let us set C at “30” (or 360, so that we may use convenient calendrical notation—which is very likely what the ancients did, at least according to Ernest McClain[1] and others. If we take this tone, and halve the length of the string, we get the octave. (Pitch is inversely proportional to string length.) Mathematically, if middle C is 360, then the higher C’ is 720. And high c is twice again as high, 1,440.
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- ↑ Ernest G. McClain, The Myth of Invariance: The Origin of the Gods, Mathematics and Music from the Rg Veda to Plato (Maine: 1976).
