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It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

"Those who play and habitually listen to these things don't seem to notice the gross errors…"

"Those who play and habitually listen to these things don't seem to notice the gross errors of pitch and rhythm involved."

Because, in those musical systems, they're not gross errors. If that's what you grow up listening to, it sounds "natural", or if you want to argue "natural" then at least "normal", to you and there are no errors involved.

The ability to appreciate music may be innate in humans, but we learn to appreciate the music we hear and I think the music we hear and absorb in childhood comes easiest to us. We don't know, when we're listening to that music in childhood, that there are other musical systems that do things differently and as our familiarity with the music we hear grows, we come to expect music to sound that way. Music which doesn't sound that way sounds "wrong".


David Aiken


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