FokkerN.zip scales

I have recently discovered in my files a set of folders with titles such as Fokker7.zip which contain 5-limit scales in Scala format with names like mavchrome, porchrome, synpor, etc. Other similar folders are Fokker5.zip , Fokker8, Fokker9, Fokker10, Fokker12 and Fokker14.zip. I don't recall where I got them and neither does Manuel Op de Coul. I suspected that they might be from Paul Erlich, Gene Ward Smith or Graham Breed, but I couldn't find anything at their sites on the web.

Can anybody help me track down the source? They are quite obviously 2D 5-limit periodicity blocks generated from pairs of commas such as 25/24 & 135/128, etc.

--John

Those are from Gene. See also here:

/tuning-math/files/gene/fokker/

-Carl

At 01:50 PM 12/29/2010, you wrote:
>I have recently discovered in my files a set of folders with titles
>such as Fokker7.zip which contain 5-limit scales in Scala format with
>names like mavchrome, porchrome, synpor, etc. Other similar folders are
>Fokker5.zip , Fokker8, Fokker9, Fokker10, Fokker12 and Fokker14.zip. I
>don't recall where I got them and neither does Manuel Op de Coul. I
>suspected that they might be from Paul Erlich, Gene Ward Smith or Graham
>Breed, but I couldn't find anything at their sites on the web.
>
>Can anybody help me track down the source? They are quite obviously 2D
>5-limit periodicity blocks generated from pairs of commas such as 25/24
>& 135/128, etc.
>
>--John
>

Say Gene, how come the 12-tone file is so much bigger
than the others? Did you look hardor for 12-tone blocks? -C.

At 01:58 PM 12/29/2010, you wrote:
>Those are from Gene. See also here:
>
>/tuning-math/files/gene/fokker/
>
>-Carl
>

John,

I did not check as to if these are in the current scala archive. If not, or
even just on the chance they are not, could you email the zip to me?
I'm be very grateful if you would,

Thanks,

Chris

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:50 PM, John H. Chalmers <JHCHALMERS@ucsd.edu>wrote:

>
>
> I have recently discovered in my files a set of folders with titles
> such as Fokker7.zip which contain 5-limit scales in Scala format with
> names like mavchrome, porchrome, synpor, etc. Other similar folders are
> Fokker5.zip , Fokker8, Fokker9, Fokker10, Fokker12 and Fokker14.zip. I
> don't recall where I got them and neither does Manuel Op de Coul. I
> suspected that they might be from Paul Erlich, Gene Ward Smith or Graham
> Breed, but I couldn't find anything at their sites on the web.
>
> Can anybody help me track down the source? They are quite obviously 2D
> 5-limit periodicity blocks generated from pairs of commas such as 25/24
> & 135/128, etc.
>
> --John
>
>

At 02:29 PM 12/29/2010, you wrote:
>John,
>
>I did not check as to if these are in the current scala archive. If not, or even just on the chance they are not, could you email the zip to me?
>I'm be very grateful if you would,
>
>Thanks,
>Chris

Or you could just download them from the files section. -Carl

Even easier - for some reason I didn't think they were there.

Thanks!!

Chris

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Carl Lumma <carl@lumma.org> wrote:

>
>
> At 02:29 PM 12/29/2010, you wrote:
> >John,
> >
> >I did not check as to if these are in the current scala archive. If not,
> or even just on the chance they are not, could you email the zip to me?
> >I'm be very grateful if you would,
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Chris
>
> Or you could just download them from the files section. -Carl
>
>
>

--- In tuning-math@yahoogroups.com, "John H. Chalmers" <JHCHALMERS@...> wrote:
>
> I have recently discovered in my files a set of folders with titles
> such as Fokker7.zip which contain 5-limit scales in Scala format with
> names like mavchrome, porchrome, synpor, etc.

They are from my survey of 5-limit Fokker blocks of small size. Instead of finding a representative block for a pair of commas, I found all of them.

--- In tuning-math@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <carl@...> wrote:
>
> Say Gene, how come the 12-tone file is so much bigger
> than the others? Did you look hardor for 12-tone blocks? -C.

Twelve has a lot of good pairs of commas.