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To save $$ in equipment I can use a standard multi-octave chromatic tuner to determine the pitch of a given tone bar for a metalophone IF I have a means to convert pitch +/- cents deviation from concert normal to cycles per second. This is necessary for design and coupling of resonators to the tone bars. I am using non-western tunings, so. . . I already have the operations for these, but don't know the operation for Hz- Cents/Cents-Hz. In western musical tuning, one half step is divided into 100 "Cents". An octave (1:2 ratio to a fundamental frequency; i.e. A440hz:A880hz) comprises 12 half steps and 1200 cents. Someone mentioned that it had something to do with the natural logarithm of 2?
Re: What is the operation to convert Hertz to cents deviation in music pitch?
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