best article on tuning I have read

Yep, and it's by none other than Brian McLaren:

Xenharmonikon 14: "The Uses and Characteristics of Non-Octave Scales"

Looks like Xen 14 is the best *issue* of the mag I have read as well.

(Nothing like expressions of personal opinion!)

J. Pehrson

Hi, Joe! This is disconnected from it's upthread link. I would like
to know what you're talking about.

Greetings and good cheer,

Bob

--- In tuning@y..., "jpehrson2" <jpehrson@r...> wrote:
> Yep, and it's by none other than Brian McLaren:
>
> Xenharmonikon 14: "The Uses and Characteristics of Non-Octave
Scales"
>
> Looks like Xen 14 is the best *issue* of the mag I have read as
well.
>
> (Nothing like expressions of personal opinion!)
>
> J. Pehrson

--- In tuning@y..., "robert_wendell" <rwendell@c...> wrote:

/tuning/topicId_38791.html#38799

> Hi, Joe! This is disconnected from it's upthread link. I would like
> to know what you're talking about.
>
> Greetings and good cheer,
>
> Bob
>

Hey Bob!

Long time no hear. Although I'm well aware that Brian McLaren
produces negative reactions in people, and for good reason in some
cases, I found his article in Xenharmonikon 14 to be really
engrossing.

In that article he calculates various "non-octave" scales which
approximate various ET "octave" scales. There are, apparently, and
*infinite* number of such scales. (That would make sense, since a
scale of n root of x could have an infinite number of n's and x's I
guess...)

The point being, and this was the best part, that using these "non-
octave" scales one could *approximate* an ET but make special
characteristics, i.e. certainly intervals could be slightly different
from the ET *BY DESIGN* so it's a little like "tuning up" an ET.

I never would have thought of *any* of this stuff, or even considered
it, so I was rather "blown away..."

best,

Joe