Re: sacred geometry

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Sep 19 1997 - 10:32:48 MDT


Darrell Parfitt <eng5dgp@titan.vcu.edu> writes:

> I have the understanding that the golden mean is very important to
> music because it relates to the natural resonance of sound inside the
> human skull, but I'd be interested in finding out more from a neurologist.

Fun idea. I doubt it, but I'll try to find some way of checking the
natural frequencies of the cranium. It would be unlikely if it was a
simple number like phi, but I'm prepared to be surprised.

Otherwise, I think the twelfth root of 2 is involved in music as
the pythagorean comma, but I know too little about it.

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