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Dear brother Danny, While 7-limit has a cool flavour all its own, I would like to obtain a 5-limit diminished seventh for my own selfish purposes. Cordially,
Hello Cameron, You're using D, F, Ab, A##. You might want to study the term "diesis" a bit. ... I just recently learned enharmonic spelling etc. And I can now
It seems to me that the diminished seventh is three steps of bIII (L+s) ; producing I, bIII, bV, and bbVII e.g. C Eb Gb Bbb Obviously splitting the octave into