No s~t? What’s his name? Where did he teach?
FWIW, I took a physics of music class that explained the relationship of musical intervals. Notes that are an an octave apart are twice the frequency, Fifths and thirds that compose a cord are roughly 150% and 133% apart in frequency and so on. We sense the harmony of that.
His name was Joe Berland and he taught at Chabot College.
For some reason I wanted to take a class but it required you either having taken their trig class or go through some sort of trig test as a prerequisite.
I had taken a cheesy trig/intro trig type class years before in high school so I didn’t feel confident that I could pass a trig test so I decided to go ahead and take it there. The one that fit my schedule was the one he taught.
Just dumb luck on my part but he was an excellent instructor. Just about every semester the new crew at the junior college paper would re-discover that he was (or had been?) a professional musician.
http://www.miriamcutler.com/MIRarticles_fourteen.htm
(Don’t know when that was written but evidently he can play keyboards, accordion and clarinet – evidently at some point they reunited to do some sort of “play” (second paragraph from end))