As 100% is to a full bucket of water, (counting the cohesive water above the rim,,,("Really" full), 100% of our sounds and colors that we perceive with the brains we have now, is ALL we need to create an unlimited amount of music and shades.

WE are not limited at all! I see the octave as a perfect expanding Universe, that like it, is even increasing in speed.

Maybe the problem lies not within an octave, (for as Jim points out, there are different frequencies within any other C octave), but the problem could lie within any certain musician not able or willing to create even more original music from an octave's HUGE mathematical possibility. That goes for beats too.

As this relates to piano tuning, in the Mozart days of harpsichords, and the early pianos from 1726, there was a different tuning method of setting the notes with their beats per second not as they are now. "Those" sounds, even from Mozart and similar, would have all of us yelling, STOP!!!! But, to the players of that time, and for the listeners, it was their normal.

Limits within our notes? NO! Not ones that are reasonably countable anyway. Limited creativity, for many reasons for any one of us is what can limit us if we aren't musically aggressive enough to be creative. (Talent being just one a factor of course)

It's ALL in there! (Those initial 12 tones, plus combos of slurs, from any instrument, and all the other octaves for all sound colors to be expressed),,,,it's ALL in there! 100% Full of possibilities. Music history probably has only accounted for 1%, if that! Maybe business reasons, influence reasons, expectations, etc, is what holds the creative process back to make it seem like we need more notes.

We just have to keep banging away at the 100% of notes that we know of!

The edge of the growing Universe has us looking to see what is on the other side. If not made yet, we're looking for, and at nothing. Not yet anyway. When we hear NEW music, it's like the newly formed sections of the growing Universe, (100% of the Universe is all there is for that Universe),,,as I see it anyway.


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