FW: pelog and 9-tET

forwarded from the still living Mills tuning list . . .

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul H. Erlich
> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 8:25 PM
> To: 'tuning@eartha.mills.edu'
> Subject: pelog and 9-tET
>
> Daniel Wolf wrote,
>
> >> Indeed, timbres based on 9tet will sound reasonably well
> >>with most any pelog.
>
> William Sethares wrote,
>
> >Can you explain this more? What is the relationship between
> >pelog and 9-tet? (Or did you mean 7-tet?)
>
> Not to answer for Daniel, but 9-tET contains a very believable pelog
> scale: its step sizes are
>
> 1 3 1 1 3
>
> The fifth of 9-tET is 667 cents and works best with cloudy and/or
> inharmonic timbres. Then the scale
>
> 1 2 1 2 1 2
>
> has three major triads and three minor triads, all sounding distorted
> but recognizable.
>
> I've had a lot of fun improvising polyphonically in 9-tET using these
> two scales. I was inspired to tune it up on my keyboard by Ivor
> Darreg's 9-tET piece on _Detwelvulate_, IMO one of the few convincing
> pieces on that CD.