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15000
... Looks like there's a lot of overlap. Mine's basically: 7 dominant keemun 8 dimisept pajara 9 august semaphore negrisept augene 10 blackwood pajara injera...
Keenan Pepper
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Jun 1, 2006
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15001
... The reason I asked is because I don't know what half of these are. Do you have scl files? -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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Jun 1, 2006
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15002
... Semiconvergents do that....
Gene Ward Smith
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Jun 1, 2006
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15003
... Graham, This was the sort of structure I thought I had discerned. I agree with Carl about the value of including these 4 headings. IMO, the weakest part...
Yahya Abdal-Aziz
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... Hi Carl, I tried, but couldn't find it. Does it still exist? Regards, Yahya -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. ...
Yahya Abdal-Aziz
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Jun 1, 2006
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15005
Hi all, ... Thanks for the pointer - nice job, Carl! Comments: This is definitely the kind of thing needed as an outline of tuning mathemeatics. I can ...
Yahya Abdal-Aziz
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15006
I've updated the page to reflect comments I've had up to but not including this message. So if anybody wants to check: ...
Graham Breed
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Jun 1, 2006
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15007
... No, there are different ways of evaluating both the error and complexity of a temperament. One day I'll write a treatise on them. For now, if you can...
Graham Breed
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Jun 1, 2006
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15008
... It isn't a done deal that magic's more complex than porcupine. In the 9-limit I make them the same, and with my weighted 9-limit complexity magic comes...
Graham Breed
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15009
... Thanks for reading, Yahya. ... There are lots of different measures. 'd' isn't even in favor anymore, I don't think. But it does work, if only for rank 2...
Carl Lumma
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Jun 1, 2006
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15010
... The above url works for me! -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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15011
... it ... I mean the tuning-soft dictionary website. ... Tempered octaves! Thats an interesting idea. Is this similar to the out-of-tune piano effect? This...
rodney_clownpuncher
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Jun 1, 2006
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... it ... I mean the tuning-soft dictionary website. ... Tempered octaves! Thats an interesting idea. Is this similar to the out-of-tune piano effect? This...
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15013
... people ... home. ... I am mostly self taught. I' ve studied Helmholtz, Partch, Yasser (though I do not agree with all his theories), Plomp and Ottman, ...
rodney_clownpuncher
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Jun 1, 2006
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15014
I must say I find the ET scales just an exercise. Since we have computers, to me it just makes sense to tune notes exactly to the tuning or mistuning you...
rodney_clownpuncher
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Jun 1, 2006
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15015
I'd like to hear peoples verdict on the 0, 240, 480, 720, 960 cent pentad. It lies on the border of consonance and dissonance and squeezes 5 notes into an...
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15016
... Where do diaschismic, schismatic, or hanson rate in your scale of things?...
Gene Ward Smith
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Jun 1, 2006
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15017
... Interesting remarks. I wonder what other reasonably small ets strike you as having possibilities....
Gene Ward Smith
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Jun 1, 2006
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15018
... All right, here goes Keenan's List-O-Scales: ! TOP Dominant 7 ! 203.5 406.9 495.9 699.4 902.8 991.8 1195.2 ! ! TOP Keemun 7 ! 68.2 317.8 386.0 635.7 703.9 ...
Keenan Pepper
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Jun 1, 2006
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15019
... Well, it's for a different purpose. Piano tuners often stretch the octaves, especially in the low register, because the strings are thick and stiff and the...
Keenan Pepper
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Jun 1, 2006
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15020
... You might be interested in read Paul Erlich's paper on 22-et. He also has a forthcoming one on the sort of "middle way" or "new paradigm" theory done on...
Gene Ward Smith
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Jun 1, 2006
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15021
... But even with computers, an et might be precisely the tuning that we want. Suppose we decide we want 50/49 tempered out, so that 7/5~10/7. Suppose also we...
Gene Ward Smith
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Jun 1, 2006
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15022
... It's a useful chord to have around in any equal temperament divisible by five, such as 15, 25, 50, 55, or 80. Since 50 and 55 are both good meantone...
Gene Ward Smith
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Jun 1, 2006
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15023
... Thanks!! -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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Jun 1, 2006
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15024
... What, you mean all at once? Sounds pretty muddy all at once, but it depends on the context I guess. The scale, however, is great, especially if you squeeze...
Keenan Pepper
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Jun 1, 2006
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15025
How would these be described? ! 10_serpent1.scl ! Two pentatonic chains of 7:4's rooted a 5:4 apart, tuned in 31-tet. 10 ! 154.839 !.....4 232.258 !.....6 ...
Carl Lumma
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Jun 1, 2006
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15026
... That's exactly what I've been doing! Except I haven't been doing that much of it lately, and most of these things hadn't been discovered when I put...
Carl Lumma
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15027
... Is the proof known? Googling for "Hardy Wright semiconvergent" and "Niven Zuckerman semiconvergent" isn't giving me much luck. -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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15028
... Niven and Zuckerman stick it in the exercises as a starred (difficult) exercise, which is sort of annoying. Maybe I need to put the basic information on...
Gene Ward Smith
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15029
... Actually I did put a section on semiconvergents in there almost a year ago to the day, which is still there; there is now a section following it on best...
Gene Ward Smith
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