Szanto-db gigglabytes & a question

In a message dated 2003:06:07 10:54:17 AM, JSZANTO@ADNC.COM writes:

>db,
>
>--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, David Beardsley <db@b...> wrote:
>
>> Driving under the influence of equal temperament. I'm starting to
>> get worried about you, Jon.

LOL.

>Life = danger, danger = life. Besides, I'm going to get caught up on stuff
>this afternoon, and all I'm going to be listening to is Javanese court
>gamelan. Kind of like a high colonic for the tuning center of my brain...

ROTFLMAO.

ObTuning question: what's the story/history behind the symmetrical nonatonic
scale called _genus chromaticum_ (in 12tET: 0, 100, 200,100,100, 200,100,100,
200,100) ?

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>Finally a religious statement I can agree with:
>
>the Zoroastrian teaching that it is a sin for a person to be boring.

"Life is all a great joke, but only the brave ever get the point."
- Kenneth Rexroth

googolgigglabyte
goegolgiechelbijt - of - met een vette megagrijns
GoogolGekicherByte
googolrisibyte ===> el byte de la risita de googol
googolrisadinhabyte ===> o byte de risadinha de googol
googolspassoctet
guugoIllolbijt
gugolhihibajt
gugolngisibayt
okukolkikikol
egúgelegigalibaith
kiletstroknolyadgigabaiti
cimacimakekehapi
baitakhakhweifayatrauni
ufi'auayinisuguguluarkhar
pokatra oemadroabhethetre
inarevuta yhiyhayhake nawyo
AnekoMeppathmoTtilvatelmDiggulgyttahat
va'i utne tuktukt'ishushukuko`g tuk go`go`o`gwgaga
ggsngngsbd [gugulaNexebidi]

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, czhang23@a... wrote:

> ObTuning question: what's the story/history behind the symmetrical
nonatonic
> scale called _genus chromaticum_ (in 12tET: 0, 100, 200,100,100,
200,100,100,
> 200,100) ?

i'm not sure what the 0 is doing there, but that's the "tcherepnin
scale" (after a russian composer) among many other names, though
i've never seen it referred to as "genus chromaticum", at least not
in symmetrical form. it's been discussed quite a bit here and on
tuning-math. speaking 5-limit, it's a feature of any "augmented"
linear temperament (one where 128:125 vanishes) -- as you can see on
the first graph on this page:

http://www.sonic-arts.org/dict/eqtemp.htm

the augmented line passes through 12-equal and 15-equal, but 27-equal
or 39-equal is nearly ideal.