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THAT Mr. Chappell misunderstands me is due partly to his confounding vibration numbers with their ratios. Thus 27/16 is the vibration number of the supertonic, where 3/2 is that of the tonic; while 524288 is not the vibration number of any musical sound, though the ratio 524288: 531441 = 219: 312 expresses an interval that may be picked out fourteen times in each octave of Mr. Colin Brown's keyboard. A still more complex interval 222: 314 is found seven times in each octave.
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CLARKE, A. Just Intonation. Nature 15, 353–354 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/015353b0
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