Let's unblock that gate

Streamed it a few days ago. Remarkable film.

The only thing they got wrong was Stephen Hawking-era TTS.

I have a friend who builds instruments. A bass player who worshiped Jaco, at first he made a couple fretless bass guitars.

One day he called me with a fascinating question. He was making his first guitar, and he wanted to know: Where do I put the frets?

I built this, anyone interested? It was a wild ride

https://amiga.resource.cx/exp/phantom

It does seem fun indeed. I am curious what's involved.

I think the most fascinating thing about music (from a mathematical/scientific perspective) is the fact that the principal harmonics of equal temperament are so close to the mathematical ideals. Fourths and fifths are so close trained musicians typically cannot hear the difference. Major thirds are farther from the ideal but still are less than 1% off. That can be heard by the trained ear, but in the real world there are chorus effects (multiple voices/instruments at nominal but slightly varied pitch), vibrato, reverb etc. such that in most cases a just major 3rd sounds fine.

Without just temperament, we would never have had "The Well Tempered Clavier", Bobby Daren's "Mac The knife", and basically all of western music from the baroque period on.