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:flag_us_mn: Kacey on Nostr: It's probably beyond the scope of your talk, but there's a bit more nuance than that, ...

It's probably beyond the scope of your talk, but there's a bit more nuance than that, since pianos are typically tuned with stretched octaves ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretched_tuning ) that are a little bit wider than a mathematically perfect octave. This is because our experience of dissonance depends on the physical harmonics rather than idealized mathematical harmonics ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsl6ZcY9ag ) and overtones are a bit sharper than they "should" be due to string tension