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    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Courses/Joliet_Junior_College/JJC_-_PHYS_110/03%3A_Book-_Sound_-_An_Interactive_eBook_(Forinash_and_Christian)/3.14%3A_Musical_Scales/3.14.01%3A_Musical_Scales/3.14.1.02%3A_Equal_Temperament
      If you have a musical instrument, say a piano, set up so that the notes correspond to a Just scale based on F (the key of F) for example, changing to a key of B isn't ...If you have a musical instrument, say a piano, set up so that the notes correspond to a Just scale based on F (the key of F) for example, changing to a key of B isn't possible unless you add extra strings to the piano because there are new frequencies in the key of B. Notes an octave above should be twice the frequency of the note in the lower octave but using the formula to generate the note doesn't give a frequency twice that of the lower octave.

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