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Scott/minerva

🔗Gene Ward Smith <gwsmith@svpal.org>

8/28/2004 6:25:29 PM

I took a look at Wilson's Scott scale (genus(3^3 5^4) minus a note) in
minimax minerva. The wolf is the minerva tempering of 16/11, though in
fact it's really quite close to 19/13 (a 209/208 comma distinction.)
There are also three flat fifths of size 693.4. Three of the minor
thirds pop up to the pure 11/9 of minimax minerva, but we also have a
major third of almost the same size, 346 cents instead of 347.4 cents
(this paired with the wolf), and three 350 cent thirds. If anyone
wanted to learn to use this scale they could have a lot of fun with
it, or with its inverted form.

! scott.scl
Wilson's Scott scale, wilson1, in minimax minerva tempering
19
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75.873867
115.317911
195.660207
271.534074
310.978119
386.851985
426.296030
502.169896
582.512193
621.956237
697.830104
773.703970
813.148015
889.021881
969.364178
1008.808222
1084.682089
1124.126133
1200.000000