This is a bit off topic, but since you mentioned your guide: I hope this doesn't come off as hostile, but the guide you linked contains a number of inaccuracies and oversimplifications - it's kind of naive in an endearing way, but also leaves the reader with the impression that it covers all there is to music. I guess what I'm saying is it's fine to restrict yourself in what you include in the guide, or even simplify things, but it should be clear that the topic (i.e. music) is far richer and more complex.

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tracnar 2 hours ago | parent [-]

To give an example, this it of course not true:

> Only a limited set of frequencies is used in music. All these frequencies (that exist in music) can be played by a piano.

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PaulDavisThe1st 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You're saying its not possible to tune a piano to an arbitrary set of 88 pitches?

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BigTTYGothGF an hour ago | parent | next [-]

That's clearly not what was meant, even without the context of this following bit:

> To describe tones that exist in music, we can describe tones that exist on a piano. There are only two rules:

> the first key must play a tone of 27.5 Hz each next key must play a tone 6% higher than the previous key

(This is not to mention that at a 1.06x increase per half step you're going to be sharp by 1 cent / octave which starts to add up).

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organsnyder 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Of course you can, but that's not what's implied by the quote.

In addition to microtonality, many instruments (and the human voice) are capable of infinite tuning, and musicians will deviate from the "correct" note (as played by an even-tempered instrument) based on chord structure, voice leading, etc.

	▲	BigTTYGothGF an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Also quarter step bends in guitar and vibrato in general.

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jpitz 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

there are absolutely pitches that an arbitrary piano cannot be tuned to. it is also non-trivial to tune a piano.

	▲	waffletower 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		https://www.modartt.com/pianoteq_overview :) Very high quality and affordable software modeled piano. It is rather easy to tune via Scala KBD formatted files.