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I miss you liz. Hopefully Ariana will have a tea party. We should go on a bike ride. We should have another clothing exchange near the end of school. We should have a picnic. We should go on a hike.
Ah, the question you asked is one of musical temperament. Good question, I'm sure you don't want to hear the answer.
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Sound is waves - waves of air pressure. When the frequency of one wave is exactly twice the frequency of another, then the waves fit together very neatly, which I guess we perceive as a nice sound. Two such sound waves are at the musical interval of an octave, and we almost perceive them as the same note, they fit so well together.
Other ratios of frequency make nice intervals, too. The perfect fifth is in the ration of 3 to 2 for instance.
The musical scale is constructed so as to ecompass as many of these "nice" intervals as possible, and the reason for the twelve notes is that if you keep going up by a fifth (throught the circle of fifths), you eventually end up at the note you started (after 12 iterations). (Well, not exactly the same note, but close enough I wouldn't worry.)
On a more personal note, sorry about some of the crap you've seem to be dealing with, this comment included.
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Hopefully Ariana will have a tea party.
We should go on a bike ride.
We should have another clothing exchange near the end of school.
We should have a picnic.
We should go on a hike.
All of these things are lovely things to do.
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Nevertheless...
Sound is waves - waves of air pressure. When the frequency of one wave is exactly twice the frequency of another, then the waves fit together very neatly, which I guess we perceive as a nice sound. Two such sound waves are at the musical interval of an octave, and we almost perceive them as the same note, they fit so well together.
Other ratios of frequency make nice intervals, too. The perfect fifth is in the ration of 3 to 2 for instance.
The musical scale is constructed so as to ecompass as many of these "nice" intervals as possible, and the reason for the twelve notes is that if you keep going up by a fifth (throught the circle of fifths), you eventually end up at the note you started (after 12 iterations). (Well, not exactly the same note, but close enough I wouldn't worry.)
On a more personal note, sorry about some of the crap you've seem to be dealing with, this comment included.
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