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(1) It seems strange to me for someone to say that musical scales and
their temperaments are tangential to the discussion of small
whole-number ratios when small whole-number ratios provide the
historical context for the development of the musical scale.
The
original topic we were asked to comment on was why we don't have ratios
involving seven (8:7, 9:7, 10:7) in our scale. That means the orignal
question was, in fact, a question about scales and temperaments.
(3) Some musicians, perhaps especially violin players and singers, do
not like stretched tuning for a piano. They seem to hear and prefer
octaves as not stetched and this can lead to conflicts when they are
accompanied by a piano that is stretched.