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A hybrid pelog-slendro scale

🔗Herman Miller <hmiller@IO.COM>

6/10/2006 3:35:17 PM

Not quite a traditional pelog ... I was looking for temperaments that have pelog-like scales in them, and found one in a 9-note chain of a temperament that I wasn't familiar with ... looked it up in a list of temperaments and it turned out to be "gorgo". The interesting thing about this one is that it gorgo is a 5&16 temperament, on a line between 5-ET and 16-ET. So you can take it in one direction and approach a slendro tuning, and in the other direction it approaches 16-ET which is a mavila temperament. In the middle it's kind of a hybrid pelog-slendro. Not very traditional, but it could have uses.

! gorgo-pelog.scl
!
Pelog-like subset of gorgo[9]
7
!
64.82352
293.02282
521.22213
684.59791
749.42143
977.62074
1205.82004

It's not a very typical pelog; that 64.8 cent step is way small. Compare this with bug[9], which sounds a little more like a pelog scale.

! bug-pelog.scl
!
Pelog-like subset of bug[9]
7
!
101.28399
260.25680
520.51359
679.48641
780.77039
939.74320
2/1