RE: 5-limit in India?

>If the sruti
>scale is influenced by Pythagorean ideas, why no mention of
>frequency ratios?

The ancient Hindu texts mention 9- and 13-sruti intervals (perfect
fourths and perfect fifths) as the only "consonant" intervals, and never
deviated from octave equivalence. That's as Pythagorean as you need to
get (Pythagoras had no idea about "frequency ratios," either!). Hindu
theorists probably found that by tuning 21 consecutive "consonant"
intervals, they could generate the existing scales with virtually no
error (2 cents) and have a roughly consistent measure of size for scale
steps (major tone = 4, minor tone = 3, semitone = 2). I do have one
other model (in my forthcoming paper) for how 22 could have come to be
used to describe their scales, but it is a little more far-fetched.



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>I've written a little MSDOS program that allows people to experiment
>with tunings (and do a few other things).

Great! You might want to compare features with Manuel Op de Coul's
"Scala" program.



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Hi Greg,

At 04:21 PM 8/31/97 -0700, you wrote (Digest 1170, Topic No. 2):
>From: greg phillips
>Subject: testing an experimental tuning program
>
>Hi everyone,
>I've written a little MSDOS program that allows people to experiment
>with tunings (and do a few other things). It requires a sound blaster
>card (although it can actually use the PC's speaker - but it doesn't
>sound as nice). If anyone out there has a sound blaster card and is
>interested in helping me test the program - let me know. I need to
>verify that it works on a range of sound cards.

I'd be happy to try out the thing. I don't specifically have a "Creative
Labs" brand Sound Blaster card, but my laptop machine uses an "ESS
Technology" sound card (whatever that is) and my machine is IBM compatible
(for your MSDOS requirement). Feel free to email it to me as an "attached
file" or whatever.

Thanks! (and "Happy Tuning", "Stay Tuned", "Just Tune It", "Looney Toons",
etc.)

--Mark
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