A Superparticular Computer? How viol makers (probably) calculated ratios.
How did sixteenth century English viol makers negotiate the reasonably complex task of negotiating proportional ratios when they made their instruments. Whilst my research indicated that they favoured superparticular ratios that related to the harmonic series, if the task of achieving them was too complex for the Renaissance craftsman, the perceived requirement would throw into doubt my research findings. In […]
