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Music @beehaw.org marco @beehaw.org 1y ago

xkcd: Musical Scales

https://xkcd.com/2788

"In the Hall of the Mountain King was accidentally composed on log/log paper."

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Hahahahahaha. I get this joke. It is very funny. You should probably explain it for the other people who are not so smart as me who is smart.
- On a normal scale, the ticks go 1..2..3..4...
  
  on a log scale, ticks go 1..10..100...1000...
  
  Sound and frequency, weirdly, is always in a log scale, you just dont notice it
  
  Time however, usually shouldnt be 😂
  
  Thanks. I guess I never realized notes were on a log scale.
- You have to know music and math to appreciate this, true.
  
  If you need an explanation I'd say read the intro for log scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_scale
  
  And then listen to https://youtu.be/4nMUr8Rt2AI
- I think there's a website called "xkcd explained", or something.
  
  explainxkcd.com
And thus the spectrogram was born

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