Pythagoras and scales

[Alan R. Barnard]

If Pythagoras was a vegetarian, did he only eat plants with square roots?

And what, if anything, would his fanatical eating habits have to do with
music or math?

Alan Barnard

----- Original Message -----
From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: Pythagoras and scales


> I've read it several places, as have you, and can
> unfortunately not say more than that. But if I bump
> into him sometime, I'll ask him to email you.
> --- Richard Moody <remoody@midstatesd.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Pythagoras was a strict vegetarian. He truly
> > despised
> > > carnivores and formulated the scale which we all
> > use
> > > in pianos ( and most Western music ) today.
> > >     Gordon Lee Stelter
> >
> > Where did you read this? (That he formulated the
> > scale which we
> > all use in pianos.) I am researching how Pythagoras
> > actually
> > discovered the Pythagorean Comma.  I am having a
> > hard time coming
> > up with his original writings, mainly because nobody
> > else has.  I
> > am most interested if he actually used a monochord
> > as many writers
> > claim  and if his use of the monochord lead to the
> > establishment
> > of the diatonic scale or simply recognized it as a
> > possibility out
> > of others.  ---ricm
> >
> >
>
>
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