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Hello, and Help!

🔗Chris Palmer <palm0108@...>

10/18/1996 12:43:04 PM
Hello, all, my name is Chris Palmer and I am a newcomer to the list. I
have a question or two for you.

First, do any of you have any ideas on how to notate scales that divide
the octave into more or less than 12 steps? The standard 5-line system
doesn't really do it for me.

Second, being new to this tuning thing, are there any books that will
explain the concepts?

any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

:)
Thanks,
Chris

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🔗Gary Morrison <71670.2576@...>

10/20/1996 10:09:41 AM
> schismatic temperaments should refer
> only to those with fifths larger than 700 cents. Otherwise, the diatonic
> thirds are purer than the schismatic thirds, and the tuning is better
> characterized as a meantone temperament

That strikes me as a curious comment considering that third-, quarter-,
fifth-, and sixth-comma meantone all have fifths smaller than 700c.



> It doesn't seem useful to characterize a tuning as a tempering of the
> pythagorean comma unless the tuning in question is an equal temperament.

I'm inclined to agree. I suspect that Manuel used that either as a just a
convenient point of comparison. Or perhaps he used it from the more
well-temperamentish perspective of being able to sum the temperings of fifths
around the circle (12 total) and arrive at -1. That of course only works when
you temper things in terms of the pythagorean comma rather than syntonic.


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