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A sinusoidal temperament

🔗Gene Ward Smith <gwsmith@svpal.org>

7/28/2004 8:22:34 PM

Here's a temperament where the size of the fifth varies sinusoidally
around 700 cents; four of the fifths make a pure 5, so we have one
pure 5/4 in this system, and another twice as sharp as the 400 cent
major third.

It's a rather extreme temperament ordinaire, maybe what Margo would
call an extraordinaire. In general I think bifrost is a better choice,
where the very sharp thirds become 14/11s.