Notation of Equal Temperaments

Brian writes:

> But how many live acoustic xenharmonic concerts did
> YOU attend last year?

Five.

> And didn't ALL of 'em use one-of-a-kind exotic homebuilt acoustic
> microtonal instruments?

None of them did. All five used ordinary acoustic instruments,
except perhaps the 31-tone organ, but that's hardly an exotic or
one-of-a-kind instrument.

> --say, H and I (NOT to be confused with the German H for "B flat").

The German B is "B flat", H is "B". It's already confusing.

> (How about it, Manuel? Any chance of your writing a computer
> program to find & list all the 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-, and 9-note modes of
> every relatively prime ET with fifths less than 21 cents away from
> 3/2, from 5/oct through 53/oct?)

Ok, I'll think about it. Some restrictions may be necessary.
In any case those ET's are:
5, 7, 12, 17, 19, 22, 26, 27, 29, 31, 32, 33, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43,
45, 46, 47, 49, 50 and 53.

Manuel Op de Coul coul@ezh.nl

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