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Well behaved brats for other temperaments

🔗Gene Ward Smith <gwsmith@svpal.org> <gwsmith@svpal.org>

2/24/2003 5:55:46 AM

We can use the same magic values for the brat (-6, -1, -1/6, 0, 1/4,
2/3, 1, 3/2, 2, 4, 9, infinity) and also get nice beat ratios. I
checked Schismic, Kleismic, Diaschismic, and Orwell. For the latter
two the only magic value which works is b=3/2, with perfect fifths,
but in neither case is this poptimal. Schismic and Kleismic were much
more like Meantone; for Schismic both b=-1 and b=-1/6 are poptimal,
whereas for Kleismic b=2 is poptimal.