Reply to Bruce Gilson

>Now the only tempered scales that permit this are those
>with 5x + 2y tones, with x > y > 0. This means 12, 17, 19, 22, 24, 26, ...
>and certainly both 19 and 22 qualify [. . .] I think that melodically, from
what I've said, assuming >that most tunes consist of sequences from the
diatonic scale up or down for large portions of >their scope, 19, 12, or 22
will sound all about the same.

In 22, you can only get a resonable-sounding diatonic scale with three
different-sized steps, and one scale degree has to be "mutable" to
accomodate the syntonic comma. A 5x + 2y scale in 22 will sound WAY off
(although beautiful in its own right). Bruce, I don't think you thought this
through.


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