@B six is such a great number because it gives you three primary colors and when you mix those you get three secondary colors. something so satisfying about the math of that kind of like having 12 notes in an octave is great.

@owen Exactly. I love seven because it is the oddest of the odd numbers, but that's what makes it so hard to work with.

@B although most musical scales are organized around having seven unique pitch classes and if we're assigning rainbow colors to musical notes Sir Isaac Newton system is better

@owen So, what color are the notes?

@B C-red D-orange E-yellow F-green G-blue A-purple B-magenta

Actually fairly standardized. Most painted child xylophones use these colors and boomerwackers also use these colors

@B I spoke incorrectly boomerwackers have two greens and many xylophones have the octave pink for some reason. What does seem to be consistent is c is red and d is orange

@owen Yeah, that's how they do it. But how would you do it? What color is B minor? E major?

@B I would keep C red I would make E natural yellow and I would make G sharp or A flat blue and divide the spaces in between evenly based off the chromatic scale.

This system keeps what is already fairly standardized (C red D orange E yellow) but takes into account the chromatic scale and has the advantage of being based off of a 12th note system which is evenly divisible by three and six!

@owen Any variations for major or minor? I know we're not talking about single notes anymore, but how would somebody with synathesia "see" different chords?

@owen Also, you can include grey to fill out the primary/secondary sextet if you need seven.