At 07:39 AM 11/3/99 -0800, Dave Johnson wrote:
>Sean Breheny wrote:
>
...
>Yes, the current scale is the equal tempered scale (which just means that
>the intervals between all adjacent notes are equal).
...

Almost, but not quite right.  Ideally, the ratio between the frequency of
two adjacent notes should be 2**-12  (twelth root of 2).  The problem is
that there is an ever so slight difference between  2**-12 (going up) and
1/2**-12  (going down).  Equal tempering splits the difference.  It takes
a very good ear to hear the difference in most music.

Bob McClure