Well Temperaments (Part 3)
Azimuth 2024-01-26
Summary:
Last time we saw the importance of some tiny musical intervals: irritating but inevitable glitches in our search for perfectly beautiful harmonies. Today I want to talk about a truly microscopic interval called the ‘atom of Kirnberger’. It was discovered by Bach’s student Johann Kirnberger, and it has a frequency ratio absurdly close to 1: […]