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authorjulian laplace <julescarbon@gmail.com>2025-07-07 22:45:56 +0200
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first demonstrates how one plays harmonics on a monochord. He then
shows it next to a grid of whole-number ratios, and demonstrates how
one can use these intervals to find specific ratios. I had never seen
- the concept of just intonation displayed so elegantly, so I made this
- page to understand the concept more deeply.
+ just intonation demonstrated so elegantly, so I made this page to
+ understand the concept more deeply.
</p>
<p>
I later learned that I had recreated the
<a href="https://www.lambdoma.com/">Lambdoma</a> as described by
<a href="https://www.lambdoma.com/">Barbara Hero</a>. Hero made an
- electronic lambdoma instrument for sound healing purposes. Hero traces
+ electronic lambdoma instrument for sound healing purposes. She traces
the Lambdoma back to the <i>Introduction to Arithmetic</i> by
<a
href="https://archive.org/details/nicomachus-introduction-to-arithmetic/page/191/mode/1up"
@@ -374,23 +374,27 @@
target="_blank"
>depicts it</a
>
- in his <i>Die harmonikale Symbolik des Alterthums</i> (1876). In the
- Lambdoma, Hero also sees the image of Georg Cantor's transfinite set
- of rational numbers, which are shown to be countable through use of a
- Cartesian plot. More can be read in Hero's
+ in <i>Die harmonikale Symbolik des Alterthums</i> (1876). More can be
+ read in Hero's
<a
href="https://lambdoma.com/pdfs/the-lambdoma-matrix-and-harmonic-intervals.pdf"
target="_blank"
>article</a
- >, <i>The Lambdoma Matrix and Harmonic Intervals</i> (1999).
+ >, <i>The Lambdoma Matrix and Harmonic Intervals</i> (1999). In the
+ Lambdoma, Hero also sees the image of Georg Cantor's transfinite set
+ of rational numbers ℚ, which Cantor showed to be countably infinite
+ through use of a Cartesian plot (versus the uncountable continuity of
+ real numbers ℝ).
</p>
<p>
With the root, fifth, and fourth in the top-left corner, the Lambdoma
shows how the 3/2 proportion is essential to the perception of
consonance. The musical circle of fifths, derived from these simple
- proportions, can be studied in more detail in "Pythagorean" mode,
- where related intervals can be found by color and compared.
+ proportions, can be studied in more detail in "Pythagorean" mode.
+ Similar notes can be found by color and compared, and one can easily
+ hear how stacked fifths overshoot the octave by finding the next red
+ note.
</p>
<h2>thank you!</h2>