My re-intro

I was a member of this list as a beginner a long time ago, and made a fool
of myself, so I left so I could study on my own...

I'm soon to move to Austin, TX with my newlywed wife, and MAYBE I'll go back
to school to study music or whatever. I'm a fretless bass guitar player
who's considering taking up oud/barbat as well. I also come up with ideas
for exotic musical instruments (I'd love to be able to build a fretless bajo
sexto/oud hybrid).

I came up with a "unjust intonation" or "ill-tempered" scale last night, and
retuned some Beethoven MIDI files with interesting results. It's a
distortion of 12-tone:

C 1/1
Db 28/27
D 10/9
Eb 7/6
E 11/9
F 4/3
Gb 11/9
G 3/2
Ab 14/9
A 5/3
Bb 7/4
B 11/6
C' 2/1

So it's a mixture of 3's, 5's, 7's and 11's. The inspiration: Arabic and
Iranian scales with the quarter-step flat E and B, and other notes lowered
by syntonic and septimal commas to smooth it out.

Which leads to what should I call quintal, septimal and undecimal intervals
in terms of colors. I call Pythagorean notes "black", 5-limit notes "red"
(or "brown"), 7-limit notes "green", and 11-limit notes "blue". But I'm
thinking of reversing "green" and "blue". What do you think?

I'm experimenting with a 41-tone 11-limit scale right now. I had been doing
so much with 53-tone 5-limit before...

~Danny~

God creates; Mankind discovers.

Heya Danny,

>I was a member of this list as a beginner a long time ago,

Remember that.

>and made a fool of myself, so I left so I could study on my own...

Don't remember that.

>I'm soon to move to Austin, TX with my newlywed wife,

Congrats on both accounts. Austin is a cool place!

>Which leads to what should I call quintal, septimal and undecimal
>intervals in terms of colors. I call Pythagorean notes "black",
>5-limit notes "red" (or "brown"), 7-limit notes "green", and
>11-limit notes "blue". But I'm thinking of reversing "green" and
>"blue". What do you think?

I wouldn't reverse them.

-Carl