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Re: [MMM] 1/7 double Mean tone

🔗paulerlich <paul@...>

6/26/2002 4:42:24 PM

this would be the typical D-d "octave" of a 12-note implementation of
this tuning (three sharps and two flats, the usual default) . . . of
course there's no reason to stop at 12 as opposed to, say, 7 or 19;
and maybe C-c would be preferable for some users . . .

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "X. J. Scott" <xjscott@e...> wrote:
> Rick, The Li'l Miss' says it would be:
>
> 114.804,194.693,309.497,389.386,504.19,584.079,698.883,8/5,893
> .576,1008.379,15/8,1203.072
>
> > Hmmm...Anyone have Scala ".scl" files for this tuning? Sounds
> > interesting.
> > Rick
>
>
> >> herman miller has used (and discussed with dave keenan) the
> >> meantone temperament where the octaves are 1/7-comma wide and the
> >> fifths are 1/7-comma narrow. this works really well because the
> >> major seventeenth is 3/7-comma wide, therefore the major third is
> >> only 1/7- comma wide.