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Maths vs. Music - Tuning and harmony
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RE: Is there a real chance that there is a multiverse?
(September 9, 2016 at 3:17 am)bennyboy Wrote: You could probably do a super-simple version of this experiment by covering the lowest string of a guitar with flour, and then strongly plucking it.  I would guess that you'd see a kind of pattern of flour remaining on the string after some of the dust got thrown off, and that those points with the least dust would be even divisions of the string: the exact middle (i.e. the octave point) which would be vibrating a lot, then the third and 2/3rd points, then the 1/4 and 3/4.  Not sure if this would actually work, due to finger oils on the strings etc., but you can understand the idea I think.

There's this famous experiment with fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpovwbPGEoo

and a nice explanation for the experiment as well as a 2D version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2awbKQ2DLRE
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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Maths vs. Music - Tuning and harmony - by Thumpalumpacus - September 9, 2016 at 12:46 am
RE: Maths vs. Music - Tuning and harmony - by bennyboy - September 12, 2016 at 5:58 am
RE: Maths vs. Music - Tuning and harmony - by bennyboy - September 12, 2016 at 9:17 am
RE: Maths vs. Music - Tuning and harmony - by bennyboy - September 12, 2016 at 9:26 am
RE: Maths vs. Music - Tuning and harmony - by bennyboy - September 13, 2016 at 5:09 am
RE: Maths vs. Music - Tuning and harmony - by Alex K - September 13, 2016 at 5:14 am
RE: Maths vs. Music - Tuning and harmony - by bennyboy - September 13, 2016 at 7:04 am
RE: Is there a real chance that there is a multiverse? - by Alex K - September 9, 2016 at 4:17 am
RE: Maths vs. Music - Tuning and harmony - by Alex K - September 12, 2016 at 5:30 am
RE: Maths vs. Music - Tuning and harmony - by bennyboy - September 12, 2016 at 6:03 am
RE: Maths vs. Music - Tuning and harmony - by Alex K - September 12, 2016 at 6:20 am

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