HN discussion of "The Saddest Thing I know about the Integers"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8682782
Original article is offline, it seems :-(
EDIT: archive.org to the rescue!
https://web.archive.org/web/20240123154411/https://blogs.sci...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8682782
Original article is offline, it seems :-(
EDIT: archive.org to the rescue!
https://web.archive.org/web/20240123154411/https://blogs.sci...
Specifically, you can play with it yourself with a tool like ZynAddSubFX's (https://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io/) virtual keyboard, where you can enable microtonal under scale settings and tweak to whatever tuning you want (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdPPPeq82hw&t=669s for where the video above starts showing this).
A simpler and shorter video discussing the history of just intonation and equal temperament, with examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCYcS57eCqs