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Why Are There Only 12 Notes?

A 6-minute video by Mr. NyGuy about music theory and acoustics, on the Music and sound shelf. It was posted to r/musictheory as “Animated video on the origins of 12-tone chromatic scale”.

Mr. NyGuy, Video, 6 min, 2020, on the Music and sound shelf

Why Western music settled on twelve notes.

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