Reply to Robert C Valentine

>The question I asked myself was,

> "given an equal tempterment, can I write a program that will come up
> with a reasonable, quasi-meantone treatment".

>For instance, type in "17", and get out

> major scale : 3 3 1 3 3 3 1
> sharp : +2 (double sharp +4)
> flat : -2 (double flat -4)

Yuck! Have you heard the triads this produces?