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The Two Diadiaschisma Scales

🔗Gene Ward Smith <gwsmith@svpal.org>

1/10/2004 10:44:27 PM

These are based on the diaschisma and the diaschisma-schisma (check
Manuel's list if you don't believe me) of 67108864/66430125. Scala
tells me the scale closest to diadiaschis1 in my scale archives is
bp12_17 "12-tET approximation with minimal order 17 beats". For
closest to diadiaschis2 I find that it is, according to Scala,
exactly equidistant from duoden12 "Almost equal 12-tone subset of
Duodenarium". These scales seem to be warping into some sort of
circulating temperament.

! diadiaschis1.scl
Diadiaschisma scale 2048/2025 67108864/66430125
12
!
135/128
18225/16384
1215/1024
512/405
4/3
45/32
3/2
405/256
54675/32768
16/9
256/135
2

! diadiaschis2.scl
Diadiaschisma scale 2048/2025 67108864/66430125
12
!
135/128
9/8
1215/1024
512/405
4/3
64/45
3/2
405/256
54675/32768
32768/18225
256/135
2

🔗Paul Erlich <perlich@aya.yale.edu>

1/11/2004 2:08:15 PM

--- In tuning-math@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith" <gwsmith@s...>
wrote:
> These are based on the diaschisma and the diaschisma-schisma (check
> Manuel's list if you don't believe me) of 67108864/66430125.

That's diaschisma *minus* schisma.

I've been seeing to on all the latest charts. Note its appearance as
the "misty" comma here, connecting 12, (51,) 63, 75, and the
excellent 87 and 99:

http://tonalsoft.com/enc/eqtemp.htm

> Scala
> tells me the scale closest to diadiaschis1 in my scale archives is
> bp12_17 "12-tET approximation with minimal order 17 beats". For
> closest to diadiaschis2 I find that it is, according to Scala,
> exactly equidistant from duoden12 "Almost equal 12-tone subset of
> Duodenarium".

The duodenarium is a huge Euler genus in the 5-limit lattice, with
over 100 notes, I believe.

🔗Gene Ward Smith <gwsmith@svpal.org>

1/11/2004 8:24:04 PM

--- In tuning-math@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Erlich" <perlich@a...>
wrote:

> I've been seeing to on all the latest charts. Note its appearance
as
> the "misty" comma here, connecting 12, (51,) 63, 75, and the
> excellent 87 and 99:

"Misty" is certainly less clumbersome than diaschisma-schisma. I
think I'll call these the Diamisty scales.