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Also -- looking at the graphic of the ancient Egyptian musical system, I note that Julie Andrews sang it wrong.... It's do re mi fa SOL la SI do! It's sol, not "so" (or "sew") and there's no tea with jam and bread in there.

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This is a feast for my curiosity on this topic -- thank you for pulling this together Phillip! I've often wondered why there are 7 notes in the scale. And if we left the Milky Way Galaxy, would we be immersed in a completely different kind of sound? And how does all this relate to cymatics? This demonstration of cymatics blew my mind when I first saw it https://youtu.be/VkmxFBmHLLc

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