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Originally Posted by Scot Nelson
Remember that the music in the banana video was composed by Roy "Futureman" Wooten, a member of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.
About 6 or 7 years ago, Roy was developing a new musical instrument. He came to see me one day about that, as he had attended a seminar I had given on a math topic. I showed him and discussed the mathematics of a musical scale based on plant growth that he used to create his instrument.
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That's really, really cool. Thanks for sharing!
I wonder if it was perhaps based on the Fibonacci sequence, maybe in terms of half steps: 1/2, 1/2, 1, 1.5, 2.5, 4, 6.5? So in A it would go (I think):
A
Bb
Cb
Db
E
A