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RE: [tuning] Re: new decatonic scales and dodecatonic scales?

🔗Paul H. Erlich <PERLICH@ACADIAN-ASSET.COM>

8/25/2000 10:17:27 AM

I wrote,

>> Let's look at what I got by "relaxing" 10-tET:
>>
>> 0 78.3 194 387.3 501 581 697.3 777.3 890 1084.3
>>
>> Basically, that's C C# D E F F# G G# A B in a pseudo-meantone -- a
chain of
>> fifths:

>Joseph Pehrson wrote,

>Could someone please explain to me, gently, what is meant by these
>"relaxing" models... is it moving the notes of the equal temperament
>to the "troughs" of the harmonic entropy model...or what??

Exactly! -- though remember, these "troughs" exist on an (n-1)-dimensional
surface, where n is the number of notes in the scale.