Where is everyone?

monz,

Where is everyone who used to post here? I don't see many names I used to.
And after I posted a JT 7-limit meantone scale, no one even said boo about
it!

Pauline

--- In tuning@y..., prophecyspirit@a... wrote:

> And after I posted a JT 7-limit meantone scale

what was JT about it? wasn't it simply an extended meantone
tuning, which grabs the 7:4 via the augmented sixth, etc.?
seemed pretty standard (this observation goes back to huygens
at least) . . . the fifths certainly don't qualify as J ("just"), do they?

In a message dated 11/11/02 10:05:40 AM Central Standard Time,
wallyesterpaulrus@yahoo.com writes:

> what was JT about it? wasn't it simply an extended meantone
> tuning, which grabs the 7:4 via the augmented sixth, etc.?
> seemed pretty standard (this observation goes back to huygens
> at least) . . . the fifths certainly don't qualify as J ("just"), do they?
>
I called it a semi-just scale due to the short 5ths. The standard meantoen
scale uses a minor 7th that sounds larger than what 12-ET uses. The one I
made up has the harmonic-minor 7th. And can play in septimal minor, as well
as e and C. In fact, the split digital 7ths provided made it an all-key
scale.

The meantone major 3rd is 388 cents. This allows the IV chord to be in the
scale. A nice convenince, but one I'm willing to give up, and be on a
separate scale, to have 5ths worth 700 cents. As the meantone 5th doesn't
create the strong, harmonically-rich difference and sumational tones the ET
5th does.

Pauline