Re: Guitar tuning and the IIGS

[ccw@ctt.bellcore.com (Christopher Wood)]

In article <GREGT.93Nov29101849@porsche.visix.com>, gregt@porsche.visix.com (Greg Thompson) writes:

|> You, being a guitarist, should know that an A is 440hz (and
|> 220, and 880, and 110, etc).  The other notes fall in a log_12
|> distribution between two A's.  ie: 440 and 880 are an octave apart, so
|> the rest of the notes are spread across there logarithmically.  I, of
|> course, always forget which buttons to hit on my calculator to get
|> that, but after playing around with the numbers for a few minutes, I
|> get the magic combination...

inv-log( log( 2) / 12) = 1.0594631 (displayed resolution)

Chris

Former musician

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