Štulic

What I always used to ask myself when I was little and with no internet, is what's the reason almost everything surrounding music has something to do with the number 8 as for there being only eight different sound pitches in an octave, which is basically as I know now "the miracle of music".
Some would argue that there could be a different method of standardising tones from the one we humans know and use, but since we know that all sound is sinusoidal the wavelength of a note or any sound when measured shows exactly that there are only 7 possible different steps in a harmonic series of a string, with the eight being the same tone as the first step but in the next octave.

I know there is a whole science behind it and I have no idea about it but I think there's definitely something physically going on with the number 8 and the sound that is magical and mysterious. The octave, the octet, the octatonic scale... I don't know...

I also think human music as we know it today regardless of what genre, has developed upon a basic law and principle of rhythm and beat based on our cardiac cycle or pulse, the rhythm of everything we feel and the essence of our existance.

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