another ClownTone mode

A lot of these chromatic scales I created are 12-out-of-53.

0 5 9 14 17 22 26 31 36 40 45 48 53

In the key of C, this gives me the Rast maqam (or C major with 5/4 E and
15/8 B). D-flat, E-flat, A-flat and B-flat are raised a comma (16/15, 6/5,
8/5, 9/5). F-sharp is either 45/32 or 7/5.

I like using this scale for A-flat and D-flat major because of the narrow
(3-step) minor thirds (Ab-Cb and Db-Fb). I retuned the Chopin preludes in
these two keys and they have a blues quality to them (but sound terrible at
times because of the numerous wolf fifths and other wolves).

Now I really need to get busy drawing the fretlines of 53-tone on the neck
of my fretless bass...

~Danny~

"One of the interesting initiatives we've taken in Washington, D.C., is
we've got these vampire-busting devices. A vampire is a -- a cell deal you
can plug in the wall to charge your cell phone."
-- George W. Bush, Denver, 14 August 2001

A more "symmetrical" version that involves a shift of a syntonic comma
alternating up and down while going around the circle of fifths four spaces:

1/1 16/15 9/8 6/5 5/4 4/3 45/32 3/2 8/5 5/3 9/5 15/8 2/1

The "blues minor thirds" (12 degrees of 53-tone, NOT 3!) are Eb-Gb, Ab-Cb,
Db-Fb and Gb-Bbb. The "wolf fifths" are Gb-Db, Bb-F and D-A.

on 6/6/03 10:49 PM, Danny Wier <dawier@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Now I really need to get busy drawing the fretlines of 53-tone on the neck
> of my fretless bass...

You just need to get one of those integrated LCD bass neck displays that
take .scl files as input.