Talk:Middle C
From Academic Kids
there's one pitch in which middle C is 256Hz (philosophical pitch? I can't remember the name). has the nice advantage of all Cs being powers of 2! -- Tarquin
- It is indeed called philosophical pitch (or sometimes "scientific pitch") and was reasonably popular for a while. It's very handy mathematically speaking if the only notes you're going to use are Cs - otherwise the nasty twelfth-roots of equal temperament come along and make all the other pitches things like D=287.350284Hz ;-)
- I'm going to write about different pitch standards at pitch (music) one day, it's an interesting subject, I think. I'll spruce this page up a bit as well. --Camembert
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Middle C is called either C3 or C4
There is much confusion because Middle C is inconsistently labeled both C3 and C4.
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Just intonation Middle C
If we start from the A below middle C, we would be starting from A 220. A pure minor third from the overtone series is a 5/4 ratio. This would give us a Middle C at 264Hz.
