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Web page on regular temperaments

🔗Herman Miller <hmiller@IO.COM>

1/8/2006 6:36:02 PM

I've got a start of a page explaining regular temperaments. I had to rearrange a lot of things to introduce some concepts that may not be familiar to most readers (and I think even then I might be going too fast for someone who's unfamiliar with recent discussions on this topic). In any case, I've only got up to the point where I introduce wedgies and wedge products. I'm using 5-limit meantone as an example, assuming that anyone interested in temperament will have already heard of it (and the syntonic comma). Does any of this make sense? Any obvious errors or omissions?

http://www.io.com/~hmiller/music/regular-temperaments.html

🔗Gene Ward Smith <gwsmith@svpal.org>

1/8/2006 7:57:59 PM

--- In tuning-math@yahoogroups.com, Herman Miller <hmiller@I...> wrote:

>Does any of this make sense? Any obvious
> errors or omissions?

I'd prefer to call things such as <1200.00, 1896.58, 2786.31] "tuning
maps", and reserve "val" for the case where the coefficients are all
integers.