Modulating dekanies by hexanies (was RE: Meantone, Partch)

On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Daniel Wolf wrote:
> Paul Hahn wrote:
>> How do you
>> modulate a dekany by a hexany?
>
> Taken any dekany, treat one degree as 1/1. Take any hexany, treat one
> degree as 1/1. Now transpose (multiply) the entire dekany by each remaining
> pitch in the hexany.

Hmm, sounds more like modulation in the signal-processing sense than in
the musical sense of the word. Also, the result has, potentially, up to
sixty pitches! Isn't that rather overwhelming, cognitively speaking?

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