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Re:Perceptions of musical octaves are learned, not wired in ... by mrob on Thursday June 25, 2020 @10:23AM (#23641090)
1:2 is special in that it gives the maximum possible consonance when using harmonic timbres, but there are other good scales built around different ratios. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohlen%E2%80%93Pierce_scale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_scale

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