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Equal Temperament of the Scale

Nature volume 27, page 240 (1883)Cite this article

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IN your number of November 8, 1877, p. 34, Mr. Chappell, F. S. A., has intimated that mathematicians who propose to divide the octave into twelve equal semitones instead of “equally tempered semitones,” are deficient in musical ear. I have not noticed that any mathematician has replied to him.

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CLARKE, C. Equal Temperament of the Scale. Nature 27, 240 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027240a0

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