Abstract

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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