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Squaring the octave

🔗Robert Walker <robertwalker@...>

8/21/2004 9:48:18 AM

Hi there

Here is a piece in a symmetrical scale all of whose steps are of the form
square / (square -1)

http://www.tunesmithy.netfirms.com/tunes/tunes.htm#squaring_the_octave

:-)

9/8 8/7 7/6 6/5 5/4 4/3 3/2 8/5 5/3 12/7 7/4 16/9 2/1

As steps: 9/8 64/63 49/48 36/35 25/24 16/15 9/8 16/15 25/24 36/35 49/48 64/63 9/8

As it explains there, it arose from a discussion of tunings in the
list with Gene and Kelly.

Robert