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An early reference to lemba temperament

🔗Herman Miller <hmiller@...>

6/5/2010 12:11:42 PM

I noticed this page on Dave Keenan's site:

http://www.dkeenan.com/Music/7LimitGenerators.htm

This was from 1999, 5 years before I ran across what came to be known as lemba temperament in one of Gene's huge lists of 7-limit temperaments. It lists three single-chain generators (with an octave period) and six double-chain generators (with a half-octave period). Although this was before most of these had names, there's enough information on the page to look up the generator mapping.

The single chain generators are:

125c negri <0, -4, 3, -2]
227c gorgo <0, 3, 7, -1]
317c keemun <0, 6, 5, 3]

The double chain generators are:

71c bipelog <0, 1, -3, -3]
230c lemba <0, 3, -1, -1]
380.5c lemba <0, 3, -1, -1] (possible misprint for 370.5?)
491c pajara <0, 1, -2, -2]
506.5c injera <0, 1, 4, 4]
521c bipelog <0, 1, -3, -3]

The 380.5 cent generator is outside the usual range of lemba (it would have a 658.5-cent fifth!) but 230 cents is a good lemba generator.