Originally Posted by
cbrstar
Maybe I used the wrong terminology and I should have said octave. It's like when you tune your guitar G sting if you tune it to a octave lower it doesn't sound right but if you tune it a octave higher there's a chance the string snaps.
An octave lower (G3 to G2 for your G-string example) is half the frequency and 1/4 the tension.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_pitch_notation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_vibration
Side note - I started on piano lessons when I was a kid and did about three years without learning anything except by rote. Never why or how music works. If I'd been doing it from a position of math like this I'd have liked it a lot better.
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Last edited by Darth Lefty; 05-06-21 at 04:28 PM.