Title: A Simple but Necessary Correction
Review: I'm not a flute player, and it would be wrong to detract in any way from the esteem in which other reviewers clearly hold this book, but I felt it necessary to point out a simple error which came to light while I was searching the Net and found the following reference: on p.135 the author states that the Pythagorean and Just scales are the same - this is simply not true. The Just scale contains intervals which accord with harmonic ratios, eg. a fourth is 4:3 and a major third 5:4, while all the intervals in the Pythagorean scale are derived from multiples of the fifth 3:2 ratio by octave transpositions. Therefore, starting on note C, the difference between Just E and Pythagorean E is 22 cents, almost a quarter-tone!
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