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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 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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