Re: [MMM] For Margo -- a tuning to try

Paul!
An aside to this
The chain of 7/6s has been used as an interpretation of Pelog. In fact the keyboard layout I use for Pascal is based on this 7/6 chain.

paul@... wrote:

> (I'm cc'ing MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com because Jacky didn't respond to my post to the tuning list and I'm worried that Margo might also miss it)
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> Hi Margo,
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> Given your love of harmony based only on the primes 3 and 7, I thought this might be interesting to you -- I'm sure Gene will find many more, but it's something . . .
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> Take two keyboards, and tune each of them to 9-tET. Note that the 7:6 is essentially pure in 9-tET.
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> Now tune the keyboards a perfect fifth apart.
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> You now have nine of your cherished 12:14:18:21 chords, essentially just! Also, there are nine 100-cent steps -- familiar semitones!
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> I'd love to hear some crazy warped neo-Gothic music in this tuning.
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> Cheers,
> Paul

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--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@a...> wrote:

> Paul!
> An aside to this
> The chain of 7/6s has been used as an interpretation of Pelog.

So this scale would be two "Pelog" scales, a perfect fifth apart. Or
a Vicentino-like adaptive version of "Pelog" that allows just fifths.