microtuning on Quora

If anybody's on Quora, I attempted to answer the question, "How many music scales are there?"

http://www.quora.com/Music-scales-How-many-music-scales-are-there

This is potentially a good place to do microtuning outreach. Unlike facebook, the web site is very well done (everything has true revision control). There are a lot of other questions there I didn't dare touch, like "Why are there 12 semitones in the musical scale?"

-Carl

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Carl Lumma <carl@...> wrote:
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> If anybody's on Quora, I attempted to answer the question, "How many music scales are there?"
>
> http://www.quora.com/Music-scales-How-many-music-scales-are-there
>
> This is potentially a good place to do microtuning outreach.

Wow, this is awesome. I wish people would answer all of my questions
about random fields in life with that kind of clarity.

> Unlike facebook, the web site is very well done (everything has true revision control). There are a lot of other questions there I didn't dare touch, like "Why are there 12 semitones in the musical scale?"

What would happen if these questions were touched? Do you get a bunch
of people talking about how it's because 4*3 = 12 or something?

-Mike

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Mike Battaglia <battaglia01@...> wrote:

> What would happen if these questions were touched? Do you get
> a bunch of people talking about how it's because 4*3 = 12 or
> something?

It would take something like 20min of my time to write the
answer and another unknown quantity to handle comments and other
answers on the question.

-Carl

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Carl Lumma <carl@...> wrote:
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> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Mike Battaglia <battaglia01@...> wrote:
>
> > What would happen if these questions were touched? Do you get
> > a bunch of people talking about how it's because 4*3 = 12 or
> > something?
>
> It would take something like 20min of my time to write the
> answer and another unknown quantity to handle comments and other
> answers on the question.

And another unknown quantity to argue with the people who know all
about how 12-equal is bad because the fifths aren't pure because the
Pythagorean comma is tempered out.

Some day I'll get that wikiversity project rolling...

-Mike