RE: blues scale

>}I mentioned to Paul Erlich, and he encouraged me to post, this observation
>}on his "blues scale" in 22TET:
>}>
>}>22TET cents
>}>
>}>0 0
>}>6 327
>}>9 491
>}>10 545
>}>13 709
>}>19 1036
>}>
>}>In just intonation, it would be
>}>
>}>Ratio cents
>}>
>}>1/1 0
>}>6/5 316
>}>4/3 498
>}>27/20 520
>}>3/2 702
>}>9/5 1018
>
>Bill left out my diagram above, leading to a slight misinterpretation below.
>
>}Functionally, it may make sense to Paul to interpret the 22TET intervals as
>}he has done above. However, I definitely hear the 10 step interval as being
>}much more like an 11/8 (551 cents) than a 27/20.
>
>Me too. In fact, I don't hear a 27/20 as anything but an out-of-tune fourth
>-- the 27-limit is too high. The ratios are not my interpretation of the
>22TET intervals -- they are what would result if my diagram (omitted above)
>were translated to JI. However, as I mentioned, in such a translation the
>"bluesy" quality of the scale is lost. In any meantone tuning, the scale
>corresponding to the diagram would have only five notes. Here is an example
>where the "error" of the syntonic comma, so egregiously inflated in 22TET,
>becomes a useful musical feature.


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