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Quotes from The Theory of Sound — Hermann von Helmholtz

1821–1894 Germany

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The formation of scales and of the web of harmony is a product of artistic invention, and is in no way given by the natural structure or by the natural behaviour of our hearing, as used to be generally maintained hitherto.

The Theory of Sound (1862)

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