Sumerian 12EDO

Perhaps the Sumerians would have considered 60EDO as well. Still 60 has
quite a few factors, including 12.

Of course, the vast majority of ancient string instruments as recorded in
painting/pottery, tomb artefacts, etc, show instruments with far fewer than
12 strings. In order to discover the 'anomaly' you'd need a number of
instruments.

> From: tuning@yahoogroups.com
> Reply-To: tuning@yahoogroups.com
> Date: 27 Oct 2002 13:08:49 -0000
> To: tuning@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [tuning] Digest Number 2282
>
> see the
> section of my "Speculations on Sumerian Tuning" where
> i detail how Sumerian base-60 mathematics could give an
> extraordinarily close approximation to 12edo with rather
> simple (albeit tedious) calculations: