Editing Pythagoras (section)

=== In music ===
[[File:Gaffurio Pythagoras.png|thumb|alt=Woodcut showing four scenes. In the upper right scene, blacksmiths are pounding with hammers. In the upper left scene, a man labelled "Pitagora" is shown playing different-sized bells and glasses with different amounts of liquid in them. Both the bells and glasses are labelled. In the bottom left scene, "Pitagora" is striking chords of different length laid out across a table, once again, all of which have numbers labels. In the bottom right scene, "Pitagora" and another man labeled "Phylolavs" are shown playing auloi.|Late medieval woodcut from [[Franchinus Gaffurius|Franchino Gafurio]]'s ''Theoria musice'' (1492), showing Pythagoras with bells and other instruments in Pythagorean tuning{{sfnp|Gregory|2015|page=28}}]]
{{See also|Pythagorean tuning |Pythagorean hammers}}
According to legend, Pythagoras discovered that musical notes could be translated into mathematical equations when he passed blacksmiths at work one day and heard the sound of their [[Pythagorean hammers|hammers]] clanging against the anvils.{{sfnp|Riedweg|2005|pages=27–28}}{{sfnp|Gregory|2015|page=27}} Thinking that the sounds of the hammers were beautiful and harmonious, except for one,{{sfnp|Riedweg|2005|page=28}} he rushed into the [[blacksmith]] shop and began testing the hammers.{{sfnp|Riedweg|2005|page=28}} He then realized that the tune played when the hammer struck was directly proportional to the size of the hammer and therefore concluded that music was mathematical.{{sfnp|Gregory|2015|page=27}}{{sfnp|Riedweg|2005|page=28}}