Hertz and Cents

[Richard Brekne]

Cents is a construct that divides an octave into 1200 equal units. Sorta like
...well.. there are 60 minutes in an hour... and there are 1200 cents to an
octave. In this regard Cents and Hertz have nothing in common. It is very
usefull in many ways to relate tuning work to cents.. tho nothing can compare to
good old beats per second for absolute clarity...grin.. (speaking for meself
dont you know..hehe..)

There are conversion formulas available, and I have them laying around
somewhere.. I will send them off to you when I get time to find them. Richard
Moody has a cute little "calcuator" for doing this I believe. It also figures
string inharmonicity. I am sure he'd be delighted to send you a copy.

Doug Mahard wrote:

> Can some one take the time to enlighten me how cents correlates with hertzs.
> Hertz is a vibrational measurement in seconds, is cents  a smaller
> measurement of hertz?
>
> Totally in the dark.
>
> Doug Mahard

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Richard Brekne
Associate PTG, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway