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The Relationship Between Music and Mathematics
The relationship between people of a musical bent and people of a mathematical one is less clear. But you see, the one portion of mathematics that you can't deny is that a one-dimensional vibrating medium has a wave equation. That's why a steel drum from Jamaica fashioned out of an oil drum seems relatively muddy. Most cultures will stretch a cat gut or hollow out a piece of wood to make a flute - implicit in that decision is the construction of an overtone series.