Pontiac

I had proposed the name as a joke, but we might take it seriously--the
name "pontiac" for the 53&118 temperament. It comes from the dating of
Pontiac's Rebellion, and the fact that 1763, using its best fifth,
gives a poptimal generator for "pontiac".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac's_Rebellion

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/ohc/history/h_indian/events/pontwar.shtml

--- In tuning-math@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith" <gwsmith@s...>
wrote:

> I had proposed the name as a joke, but we might take
> it seriously--the name "pontiac" for the 53&118 temperament.
> It comes from the dating of Pontiac's Rebellion, and the
> fact that 1763, using its best fifth, gives a poptimal
> generator for "pontiac".
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac's_Rebellion
>
> http://www.ohiohistorycentral.
org/ohc/history/h_indian/events/pontwar.shtml

wow, Gene, i really like this way of naming a tuning.
it correlates a useful ET-mapping for that tuning
with both chronological history and a memorable personality,
things that are sure to help a person remember something
important about it.

good show!

-monz

--- In tuning-math@yahoogroups.com, "monz" <monz@a...> wrote:
> --- In tuning-math@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith"
<gwsmith@s...>
> wrote:
>
> > I had proposed the name as a joke, but we might take
> > it seriously--the name "pontiac" for the 53&118 temperament.
> > It comes from the dating of Pontiac's Rebellion, and the
> > fact that 1763, using its best fifth, gives a poptimal
> > generator for "pontiac".
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac's_Rebellion
> >
> > http://www.ohiohistorycentral.
> org/ohc/history/h_indian/events/pontwar.shtml
>
>
>
> wow, Gene, i really like this way of naming a tuning.
> it correlates a useful ET-mapping for that tuning
> with both chronological history and a memorable personality,
> things that are sure to help a person remember something
> important about it.
>
> good show!
>
> -monz

Gosh. And here was me thinking a Pontiac was a red-skinned potato,
or an US brand of automobile. But now I know ...

All I have to do when I see an unfamiliar temperament name from now
on, is to put the word "rebellion" after it and do a google search,
and whatever year turns up I find the best approximation to a fifth
in that ET, and there's my generator. Or was it that I was supposed
to put a vinculum between the first two digits and the last two to
get the generator as a fraction of an octave, like in 19/84. Now
wait a minute, this web site says the Pontiac rebellion went from
1763 to 1766, which year do I use?

Here, have a bit of fun Monz. I've got a new temperament I'm calling
Eureka, and another one Barcaldine. I'll give you a clue. These are
both names of monsters in Greek monster movies from the 1960s, so
you know they are related to each other.

Here's another clue. They are both indistinguishable from strict
just intonation, unless you record several hours of a single
interval and compare it against an atomic clock, so they are
seriously in need of cute names like these.