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Solving the Mystery of the Major Scale
A Past Math Challenge of Mine Re-Appears
Pavle Marinkovicposited that the human body responds well to sounds at a frequency of 432 Hz.
So many things in the natural world like their natural resonance. Why not our bodies? This hypothesis deserves more attention.
As I was reading this article, I remembered a math challenge I gave myself circa 1990. I was trying to figure out the magic of musical notes. I knew this science had been done centuries ago. But I liked figuring things out for myself.
So I measured the distances between the frets of my guitar. I spent a few sittings trying to massage these distances into some kind of mathematical relationship, maybe spending 10 hours in total. But I didn’t find the answer. I kind of gave up.
Pavle’s article brought back my 1990 challenge to me, which I mentioned in my response.
That response got another response from Mykyta, who seems to be elusive for me to tag. He mentioned this clue.
