Overtones and Tuning

 

What is pitch?

 

Listen

 

 

Partials through #24 with Sound

Harmonic Series Tube

for more information, Physics of Music

 

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History of Tuning

Listen to Meantone tuning

 

More Musical Ratios

1 cent = 1/100 of a half step

Listen

 

The Pythagorean Comma

 

Musical Notation of Intervals

Frequency Ratio

Largest integer

Unison

1:1

1

Perfect Fifth

2:3

3

Major Sixth

5:3

5

Dominant Seventh

7:4

7

Major Second

9:8

9

Minor Second

16:15

16

Anatomy of an Octave

Tunings and Temperaments Powerpoint

Just Intonation Explained

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