RE: TUNING digest 887

I wrote,

>> And if we don't hear logarithmically, how can Aristoxenus have come up
with
>> the idea of equal temperament long before either logarithms or frequency
>> counters existed?

Johnny Reinhard wrote,

>Through intellect, not ears.

What kind of intellect was this, if not mathematical or mechanical?
Divination?


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