wyeuro wrote:I don't think number bases violate any civilisation
of the world, apart from creating a common mathematical language
for communication. Similarly to the way Bach and the Equal
Temperament created a common scale for musicians what they do is
allow people an agreed method for communcating ideas - which can
only be a good thing. and arguably, there being twelve notes in
the scale, not eight, the eight-note scale with flats and sharps
is a bit of a musical strait jacket, like an apple-pied bed.
can't have a good stretch out, as it were. it doesn't suit every
culture's folk music. just imagine the paradigm shift in music
if all twelve notes were treated as equals instead of there
being seven white and five less important black keys on a piano.
imagine the difference in the psychological effect. I play the
violin, in all theory if I don't play from Sheet music, all
notes are equal...but they aren't, f sharp does not equal g flat
except on a tempered piano. then again you notice the sound
change once yo