Time to surf [tuning]

Rodrigo Cervera wrote:

> I'm new in subjects like JI and ET and all this things concerning at microtonalism,
> but I'm very interested about that, a few time a go I study (by myself) the
> pithagoran scale and other things related with music and math. My asking is if
> someone can explay me wath are meantone and 3-limit, 5-limit, 7-limit all this
> things, what is a single scale, wath is a schima and comma. Thak's for your help,
> a little help is enogh for me again thanks Rodrigo

Hello Rodrigo...

Paul Erlich and some others are much better equipped to help you than I
am, certainly, but I can point you in the direction of some excellent
tuning-educational Websites that have been created by people right on
this list (!!!)

My very favorite is one that seems to contain about everything,
assembled by John Starrett:

http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/microtone.html

You really can find links to about anything we deal with here from that
site. It's pretty amazing.

The following locations are all on John Starrett's site as links, but I
would like to point them out to you:

This is Graham Breed's great site... one of the most comprehensive on
tuning, and one that most certainly will answer your questions on
meantone:

http://x31eq.com/index.html

He has a great "tuning for beginners" page.

And, if you have any questions about definitions, there is Joe Monzo's
incredible dictionary:

http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/homepage.html

You may find solace in Just Intonation, at the Just Intonation Network:

> http://www.dnai.com/~jinetwk/

And when you are ready to jump of the diving board into the water, like
the other lemmings, you can finally go here:

> http://www.anaphoria.com/index.html

Hope this helps! Incredibly enough, a lot of this stuff has really not
been organized into comprehensive resources, except for a few books,
some of which are currently out of print! The on-line resources seem
practically as comprehensive as print books, and a lot more current.
You will find bibilographies, however, on the sites I have mentioned
above.

Happy surfing!

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Joseph Pehrson