This awesome musician proves there are more than just eight notes in an octave. In Western tonal music, we generally say a full major or minor scale is made up of eight notes (although there can be up ...

Last October, Wang Wu, a 58-year-old Hong Kong housewife, had a stroke. A few weeks earlier, US investment bank Lehman Brothers had collapsed, taking US$90,000 of the Wang family's life savings down ...

MATLAB [1] has to be one of the all time greats for analyzing nearly any sort of data, just like a spreadsheet is for making a plot of data. Alas, these programs while powerful do have a limitation – ...

Investors who claimed to have been misled by banks into buying Octave Notes, a high-risk, complex investment product, have criticised the banking watchdog for failing to act to protect their interests ...

Previous correspondence on this topic refers to the different patterns of overtones that enable us to distinguish one instrument from another. This isn’t the only factor involved. Many years ago when ...

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 ...