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I've wondered about the effects of 60 cycle hum. If 440 is an A, I believe 60 is a B. In a lot of popular musical scales this is a dissonant tone. Dissonant tones are associated with anxiety. Is constant 60 cycle hum giving people anxiety?
If practicing an area with electrical hum, tuning A down to 420 (7 * 60) is definitely a relief.
Another hilarious indictment of our academic peer review system
this wasn't peer reviewed. most papers aren't. individual papers getting through would hardly be an indictment besides. people make too much fuss over slips the idea that a system would never pass a single mistake or is otherwise defective is kind of surprising to me, frankly
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Play a B and C together. Dissonance. It is true it's not a very good idea.
A CMaj7 chord has both a B and a C in it and it sounds perfectly fine. You're saying the home chord in the key with the simplest extension is dissonant. That makes no sense. You hear music with two adjacent semitones played together all the time . It's in all jazz music and everything derived from it, which is a huge chunk of modern western music. Seriously, music isn't all just 3-note chords and a B and a C together…