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Slightly out of tune

Nature Physics volume 20, page 676 (2024)Cite this article

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Bart Verberck uses the musical cent as a pretext to touch on some of the intricacies of musical tuning systems.

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Verberck, B. Slightly out of tune. Nat. Phys. 20, 676 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02470-8

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