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4.1.5
Ratios, Frequencies, and Ratios of Frequencies

Any organizing principle worth its salt should work universally. That is, you should be able to pick any old frequency as a starting point for scale building.

RATIOS OF FREQUENCIES—NOT THE OVERTONES THEMSELVES

Potential Point of Confusion: Always bear in mind that it’s the ratios of overtone frequencies that matter—not the overtone frequencies themselves!

For purposes of scale-building, it’s all about ratios of frequencies (Table 9 above). Ratios, ratios, ratios.

If you don’t keep this distinction in mind, you could get lost. And then the new marshal will have to organize a search party.

You heard right. Dodge City has itself a new marshal. In a Classic Western plot twist, Ms Puma’s the new marshal now, ever since a posse tarred and feathered Marshal McDillon and ran him out of town on a rail. Why? For carrying on behind Ms Puma’s back. That’s why.

So, now’s not the time to cross Marshal Puma by needlessly getting lost in a wilderness of frequencies.

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