Figure 4 for Kappraff's "The 'Arithmetic' of Nicomachus of Gerasa and its Applications to Systems of Proportion" in NNJ v2n4

Figures for Jay Kappraff's
The Arithmetic of Nicomachus of Gerasa
and its Applications to Systems of Proportion

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Fig. 4. Depressing the string of a monochord at its midpoint and sounding it with a bow yields a tone one octave above the fundamental tone characteristic of the whole string. The fifth and fourth correspond to bowed string lengths of 2/3 and 3/4 of the length of the fundamental. | top of page | back to text |

Musical harmonies created from string lengths

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