Why Apple’s Mac chime is off key

Popular Science has published an excerpt from What the Ear Hears (and Doesn’t): Inside the Extraordinary Everyday World of Frequency by Richard Mainwaring that explains why Apple’s Mac chime is off key.Richard Mainwaring:Because of an internationally standardized allocation of named pitches to set frequencies, we have jettisoned the vast majority of other frequencies into musical oblivion (in Western music at least). With this in mind, I’ve held on to an unproved theory: that o