Pythagoras Was a Genius, But He Was Wrong About One Thing

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Pythagoras Was a Genius, But He Was Wrong About One Thing
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relied on simple 'integer ratios' in the sounds' frequencies, or tones, to sound appealing. What's more, the philosopher maintained that this held true no matter what the instrument.

The team also found that the integer ratios that Pythagoras was so fond of could be disregarded completely when it came to instruments that Western listeners are less familiar with: bells, gongs, xylophones, and a series of gongs called "The shape of some percussion instruments means that when you hit them, and they resonate, their frequency components don't respect those traditional mathematical relationships,"This relationship between timbre and consonance could be why some cultures ended up with different note scaling systems than those of us in the west are most familiar with.

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