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A 22 note circulating scale with integer brats

🔗Gene Ward Smith <gwsmith@svpal.org>

11/1/2005 1:35:15 AM

To vary the theme, here is a scale of 22 notes with 18 brats of 4,
2 brats of 3, and 2 complex ratio brats. It can be used in place of 22
edo, particularly for pajara. The precise values of the notes involve
the square root of two.

! pajcirc.scl
circulating pajara/diaschismic based 22 note scale with integer brats
22
!
54.745648
108.867720
164.400570
217.995909
272.853507
327.109859
382.152795
436.631407
490.863211
546.803784
600.000000
654.745648
708.867720
764.400570
817.995909
872.853507
927.109859
982.152795
1036.631407
1090.863211
1146.803784
1200.000000

🔗threesixesinarow <CACCOLA@NET1PLUS.COM>

11/1/2005 8:35:08 AM

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith" <gwsmith@s...> wrote:
>
> To vary the theme, here is a scale of 22 notes with 18 brats of 4,
> 2 brats of 3, and 2 complex ratio brats. It can be used in place of
22
> edo, particularly for pajara. The precise values of the notes
involve
> the square root of two.

This always impressed me as one of the interesting features in 22
equal, how close they are already that maybe some musicians can adjust
almost automatically.

Clark