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And the choice of which ratios "sound good" is cultural, to some extent.


No it isn't. You can hear integer pitch ratios in the same way you can see, e.g., the difference between a square and a rectangle or between a circle and an oval.


But more than 90% of all the written-composed music from western Europe and North America (at minimum) over the last several centuries does not use integer pitch ratios.


Yes, that's indeed what the TFA is about.




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