Bean - Thanks for making my point for me.

I will go so far as to also thank Faldage for the proverbial "chicken and the egg" exit... but I'd rather talk elephants...

Music (I'm sure you all heard this before) is a unique and personal experience for all. Attempts at *understanding it in the context of mathematics is futile (or more appropriately "just not worth the effort") since it exists in real time as an occurance with endless relativities. It is not an application of mathematics.[hopefully *clearer emphasis this time]

http://www.mwscomp.com/mpfc/argument.html

What I meant was the reason why a musical instrument does what it does is entirely math and physics... Curious that you left us "*sensitive, *caring, *artistic *musician types" out of this statement... but I don't take it personally!