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bobie said:That is true, but also "note" ,"music" is not Physics. I don't see why we cannot apply the same standard.
"A 7" has lots of frequencies around 3520, and it is recognized as such, independently of the tuning of the instruments. The difference with visible light is that we distinguish 12 "notes" and only 6 "colours".
Stretching our fantasy, we might talk of orange as "red sharp" or "yellow flat", or say that violet resembles red because it is an "octave above" red
Why not?
Because "colour" is similar to "timbre" in music, not to "pitch". There are some schemes where colours are coded by three parameters, one of them being the "hue", which suggest that we could treat the hue similarly to the pitch, but the problem is that those schemes are artificial. That's not how our brains perceive colours. Our brains can figure our the higher pitch of two sounds, but they simply do not have a natural notion of the "higher hue" (unless we are speaking of the brains that have been trained by years and years of professional practice).