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Pythagorean Tuning

Section of a woodcut showing Pythagoras with bells in Pythagorean tuning, a system of musical tuning in which the frequency relationships of all intervals are based on the ratio 3:2. Colorized version of a monochrome image from Theorica musicae by Franchino Gaffurio, 1492

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