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Musical Note Perception Can Depend on Culture

Sep 25, 2019 · 4 min
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Western ears consider a pitch at double the frequency of a lower pitch to be the same note, an octave higher. The Tsimane’, an indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon basin, do not.


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