Our experience of musical intervals and the uncanny “sameness” of octaves is encoded in our neuroanatomy. The neuroscience of music is rich, complex and not without controversy. But some things are ...

Every piano the world over has the same user interface: 88 keys, arranged linearly in a standardized order, with a series of 12 notes repeated again and again at higher and lower pitches. But what if ...

Western ears consider a pitch at double the frequency of a lower pitch to be the same note, an octave higher. The Tsimane’, an indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon basin, do not. “If you only test ...

[Filip] got his hands on a sweet old Hammond X5 organ, but it had one crucial problem: only half of the keys worked. Each and every C#, D, D#, E, F, and F# would not play, up and down the keyboard, ...

EMI Music North America is making preparations to fold the Higher Octave label into Narada, sources say. Higher Octave, which was sold by Matt Marshall to EMI more than five years ago, was founded in… ...