RE: [tuning] Re: Friendly introduction to hypermeantones (2 of 2)

Another fine article, Margo . . .

>Suppose we seek a regular tuning featuring thirds at a pure 11:9, a
>common flavor of "neutral third." The hypomeantone with a fifth at
>~686.85 cents (~15.10 cents from 3:2) will produce this interval as a
>regular major third -- that is, from a chain of four fifths. Here we
>are approaching 7-tet; we have whole-tones of ~173.70 cents, diatonic
>semitones of ~165.74 cents, and chromatic semitones of ~7.96 cents.
>This tuning might have a somewhat pelog-like flavor.

Perhaps you meant to say a Thai-like flavor, since Thai music uses 7-tET,
while pelog scales, if forced into a chain-of-fifths-within-a-small-ET
framework, would suggest 9-tET, 16-tET, or 23-tET, with their "whole tones"
_smaller_ than their "diatonic semitones".