Dan Sterns' 20t-ET

Regarding Dan Sterns 20-tET scale from TD 689:

> I'd be interested to know what
> sorts of subjective listening reactions people might have to the basic
> equilibriums of these 11-tone, 20 equal "major" and "minor" type
> analogous... Do these distorted -- or perhaps saturated -- proportions
> line up favorably with the expectations that would be caused by their
> traditional diatonic structural similarities (abstract though they
> certainly are)?

Well... I tuner 'er up. Umm, you know, Dan, I'm having trouble getting
my keyboard to look like yours in the examples :).

So, instead, how about just using the scale degrees 0,4,8,11,15 for the
"major" chord tetrad and 0,4,7,11,15 for the minor...

So what do I hear? As Ionesco said, "umm, uum, goo, goo..."

No, seriously, both forms sound fairly "stable" and "seventhy" as
"tonics." Frankly, I'm experiencing the "minor" tetrad as actually MORE
stable as a "tonic" than the major.

In this sense, the system is surely different from 12t-ET, of course,
where BOTH the major and minor chords can serve equally as a "grounding"
point. Well, at least that's what I'm hearing...

I tried some of the other chords you mentioned... but they really were
too complex for my ear with this scale now... I'm still trying to figure
out what I'm hearing in the basic major and minor tetrads!

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Joseph Pehrson