Re: [tuning] Digest Number 2717

tuning@yahoogroups.com wrote:

>

just because something is in scala doesn't mean it true. i don't quire hear this when i hear pygmie music

>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:11:55 +0100
> From: Graham Breed <graham@microtonal.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: harmonic halves of the fourth
>
> Martin Braun wrote:
>
> >Does somebody know about a traditional music culture X in which an
> >instrument Y is usually - or often - tuned in such a way that it includes
> >the harmonic halves of the fourth (ratio 7:6 = 267 Cent PLUS ratio 8:7 = 231
> >Cent)?
> >
> >
> The Scala archive includes this:
>
> ! pygmie.scl
> !
> Pygmie
> scale
> 5
> !
> 8/7
> 21/16
> 3/2
> 7/4
> 2/1
>
>
>

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