"ET" Meaning

> >"ET" stands for "Equal Temperament"
> Right, but there's no reason it can't ALSO stand for "equal tuning" in
> cases like 15-tET or 23-TET, which aren't temperaments.

What sort of a tuning are you calling "15-tET"? I don't personally don't think it wise to change nomenclature; as far as I know, that has always meant 15 equal steps per octave.

Gary Morrison wrote,

>I don't personally don't think it wise to change nomenclature; as far as I
know, that has always meant 15 >equal steps per octave.

No one is proposing a different meaning for it.

On Fri, 24 Dec 1999 01:01:03 +0000, Gary Morrison <mr88cet@texas.net>
wrote:

>From: Gary Morrison <mr88cet@texas.net>
>
>> >"ET" stands for "Equal Temperament"
>> Right, but there's no reason it can't ALSO stand for "equal tuning" in
>> cases like 15-tET or 23-TET, which aren't temperaments.
>
> What sort of a tuning are you calling "15-tET"? I don't personally
>don't think it wise to change nomenclature; as far as I know, that has
> always meant 15 equal steps per octave.

On second thought, 11-tET would have been a better example, since 15-tET
can be thought of as built from tempered thirds and fifths in the same way
as the "starling scale". I just don't see the need to substitute "EDO" for
"ET". Not that there's anything wrong with "EDO", but "ET" is good enough
for my needs. That's all that I was trying to explain.
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