Note in an octave

[harvey]

#2 daughter just asked me, "Dad, how many whole tones are in an octave"?

I could have belabored the point, based on 12-tone music, etc. However, I
said "Eight, like 'octo' from the Latin, etc. Why do you ask?"

She had just been watching the 'Who wants to be a millionaire" program, and
this was one of the questions. The contestant answered "Eight"... bzzzt.

The "correct" response was that there are twelve half-tones in an octave,
and SIX whole tones. The contestant missed the question by answering eight.

So, in spite of all my muzical educashun, I must have been sick that day.
Would someone 'splain this to me?



Jim Harvey, RPT
Greenwood, SC
harvey@greenwood.net
________________________
 -- someone who's been in the field too long.