Re: [tuning] Re: This is spooky! Help!

Joseph,

Why don't you try to create a just 19-tone scale yourself,
instead of only trying to find one somewhere? This is the
purpose for which I wrote Scala, that people can invent
and evaluate their own scales. You don't have be a
mathematician. You can always use your ears and try and err.
Loading one from the archive and tuning your TX is only a
tiny part of what you can do with it.

>Regarding the SCALA scales... maybe it would be a nice idea to
>sometime start some kind of "readme" file for the SCALA archive that
>has more information about some of the scales. Perhaps Manuel op de
>Coul would also like that idea.

Of course, why wouldn't I?

>It could even be in the form of a text file in the archive with the
>same name as the Scala file. In fact, that might be the best way, if
>Manuel would approve of it...

That sounds like a good idea. Contributions can be sent to me and I'll
put it in the archive. But I think comments that are very subjective
can be best left away. Who knows there are people who find "poorly
constructed" scales a challenge.
I won't be reading much email for a couple of weeks from now.

Manuel

--- In tuning@y..., <manuel.op.de.coul@e...> wrote:

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>
> Joseph,
>
> Why don't you try to create a just 19-tone scale yourself,
> instead of only trying to find one somewhere? This is the
> purpose for which I wrote Scala, that people can invent
> and evaluate their own scales. You don't have be a
> mathematician. You can always use your ears and try and err.
> Loading one from the archive and tuning your TX is only a
> tiny part of what you can do with it.

Thanks, Manuel... I will work more with these functions!

>
> >Regarding the SCALA scales... maybe it would be a nice idea to
> >sometime start some kind of "readme" file for the SCALA archive
that has more information about some of the scales. Perhaps Manuel
op de Coul would also like that idea.
>

> Of course, why wouldn't I?
>

> >It could even be in the form of a text file in the archive with the
> >same name as the Scala file. In fact, that might be the best way,
if Manuel would approve of it...
>

> That sounds like a good idea. Contributions can be sent to me and
I'll put it in the archive. But I think comments that are very
subjective can be best left away. Who knows there are people who find
"poorly constructed" scales a challenge.

Of course... I was thinking more of purely "factual" information,
like the latticing that Paul Erlich so kindly illustrated for the
just
17-limit 19-tone scale I was thinking of using....

Thanks so much for your commentary!

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Joseph Pehrson

--- In tuning@y..., jpehrson@r... wrote:

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>
> Of course... I was thinking more of purely "factual" information,
> like the latticing that Paul Erlich so kindly illustrated for the
> just 17-limit 19-tone scale I was thinking of using....
>

This was, of course, a typo. I was having a little trouble posting
on
Yahoo today, and wasn't able to catch it!...
_______ _____ _____
Joseph Pehrson