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>From: Paul Hahn
>
>It seems to me what Ivor was getting at was probably the fact that 12
>has many factors, which allows one to create what theorists call "scales
>of limited transposition". E.g. 3 1 3 1 3 1 has only four different
>transpositions, because transposed by 4 steps it's unchanged. (You can
>create such a scale because 4 is a divisor of 12.) OTOH, in 19TET it's
>impossible to create such scales, because 19 is prime.

Yeah, it seems like this is more like it. Thanks again, Paul!

>From: "Paul H. Erlich"
>Carl Lumma wrote,
>
>>If we can agree that there is a difference between re-tuning music made for
>>100 cent equal, as powerful a model and good-sounding a tuning as it is, and
>>playing music made for 7+ limit Just Intonation, however embellished,
>
>I agree! That's why I'm more interested in 22-tet than 19, 31, or
>50-tet.

Whoops! I lost you.



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>I agree with you about my 'mis-use' of the added '-tet', and had completely
>forgotten the particular community I was addressing.

Since "tet" in "4tet" is a fragment of a word, whereas "TET" in 12TET is
an acronym, perhaps it's safe to suggest that capitalization can help
reduce the chances of confusion.



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