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RE: A new musical toy! (and a touch of panic...) (Ulog #10)
Reading your post made me think of Pythagoras:
Pythagoras believed that everything in the universe was related to numbers and mathematics. He believed that all numbers had an important spiritual and holy significance and that each one carried its own vibration. He saw music the same way that he viewed geometry and mathematics, as a holy, spiritual scientific endeavor, of which a perfect society could be created.
Source: http://www.historyofmusictheory.com/?page_id=20
And being a chronic light sleeper and insomniac all my life, when I was on active duty, I was always the "semi-sleeping watchdog" of my unit during ops.
Thanks for the excellent info.
Namaste, Jaichai
Yes, the Pythagorean (or just) system of tuning was one of the first solutions to how we divide up the musical octave. In the end, aiming for perfection in the tuning key leads to disaster in other keys. Many other solutions were tried through history (which early music still uses), but modern classical (and contemporary) music has settled in equal temperament. Thus, all the keys and things are completely the same. If you ask me, it is a pale solution.