Talk:Syntonic comma

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I don't know which of the people on Didymus this comma is referring to - it was named after the first person to suggest using 5:4 for tuning a major third, but I don't know who that would have been. Anybody know? --Camembert

(Lest anybody thinks I must be thicker than thick for not guessing it was Didymus the Musician, he wasn't on the Didymus page at the time I wrote the article. --Camembert)

I think this page is hard to read, and I know quite a lot about music theory. How could we make this more accessible? I think the comment that the syntonic comma is the difference between the major and minor whole tones (9:8 and 10:9) is more fundamental and should go closer to the top; it's also something people can understand more readily even if they don't understand what a "limit" or "comma" is (and we can wikify the page so that they can click through if they don't understand this). Cazort (talk) 17:42, 26 January 2008 (UTC)