17 Jan
2018
17 Jan
'18
3:56 p.m.
Right, but it’s 1/3 of an octave, so in the equal-tempered scaled it would be 2^(1/3). - Cris
On Jan 17, 2018, at 12:23 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
The "devil's interval" of sqrt(2) was certainly considered dissonant.
But I never heard that about the major third, whose ratio is 1.25, which is more like 10% off sqrt(2) than 1%.
—Dan