The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #64008   Message #1045678
Posted By: Wilfried Schaum
01-Nov-03 - 03:09 AM
Thread Name: Musician's brains different
Subject: RE: Musician's brains different
s&r - naturally you are right, mine was the historic approach of dividing a string in halves to get the natural tones. Their height depends on the ground tone. The modern scale was established during the lifetime of J.S.B. who wrote his cycle "The Well Tempered Piano" to celebrate this invention.

Wilfried