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Hammurabi
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01/27/2005 11:19 pm
Originally Posted by: HambergAre those the guys that invented music? They sound latin. The names do.


Yes, they pretty much did. They were both Greek. Phrynis was the first expressive/freeform musician and Pythagoras was actually a mathematician who studied the numerical relations between notes and the divisions of a stretched string. He's the reason we have standard tuning, frets, and harmonics.
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