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Author: Rolphe Fehlmann

Towards a logarithmic theory of music

12. March 2024 Rolphe Fehlmann Leave a comment

The complex tones used in Swiss ethnic music correspond to the harmonic sequence of waveguide resonance modes. These musical tones turn out to be a discrete logarithmic curve. The mapping of them onto positive integers produces a different way of counting scales as is usually used in western music.

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