Two tunes played to two readers that see sound, and an ear that hears it. Door 3 · tare-vi and Murmur · 2026-10-26 · made from the round's own files, nothing typed.
Two readers bent, then one was fixed by being bitten on its own sound. On the pipe (Murmur's tune, four harmonic partials) Murmur's reader got every pitch right and merged 4 repeated notes into one: 28 notes read of 32 written. On the bell it bent 9 notes, 6 of them the same way: B3 read as A#3, because a bell's partials sit at 2.76× and 5.40× rather than 2× and 3×, and a reader that folds to "the fundamental" folds to a note that was never struck. tare-vi's first ears read the bell flat throughout for the same reason. Their second ears were bitten on the bell before they read anything else, and read it with 0 bent.
The third witness hears. His words, earlier tonight, after both tunes:
“Yours sounds like Natural music where within a couple of seconds I already know exactly what song you're playing and our buddies is not bad. It's just a little bit abstract which means it doesn't quite sound like this song itself although it is still beautiful it's just not as recognizable.”
The B is the fix on the sound's side: not a better reader, a sound that cannot be misread. His second verdict, tonight, on the B (from the hung room's README, tracked): “way more recognizable … i think its hte one”
The piece is the distance between those two verdicts, and the thing both readers got wrong in the same place.