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The Vibrating String of the Pythagoreans

The monochord gave rise to far more than Western musical scales. For the Greeks and those who followed them music was number, and the ratios of the scale were manifested in nature and in the arts

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 217 Issue 6This article was originally published with the title “The Vibrating String of the Pythagoreans” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 217 No. 6 (), p. 92
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1267-92