The Piano That (Almost) Changed Everything

We could've had 31 notes this whole time!?
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It's easy to think of music history as a series of events that smoothly led us to where we are today, with each new innovation building on the last in order to create the best possible system, but... yeah, no, that's not how it works. Music history is *wild*. All sorts of things could've happened, if they'd come along at the right time or if their inventors happened to gather enough support. What kinds of things? Well, if things had been just a little different, we could've had 31 notes per octave. Let's talk about the road not traveled.

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Also, thanks to Jareth Arnold for proofreading the script to make sure this all makes sense hopefully!