Thanks for posting this -quite informative. Also your comments in a later post remind me of yes how little of all this can actually be used. I think the...
I tried my harmonic sequence in 171-et, and it worked fine, descending by one 171-et step for each iteration of the sequence. This prompts me to give the...
Ach, I wished you asked earlier instead of trying so hard... ... accomodate. If 171 works, why >shouldn't 612? If my second "JI" version works, why not the...
... I deeply appeciate Scala and so was a bit reluctent to pick nits. ... How do you make that work? ... "set exclude 10" seems to be the default, and hence...
... If there's a period in the number, it's read as cents, so like this 0 note (116.6) 100 You're aware that using literal values in a .seq file makes it...
Hi there, The basic idea behind non standard numbers is quite simple: the numbers go like this: 1, 2, 3, ... 10^10 (10,000,000,000), ..., 10^(10^10) (has...
These are comma pump sequences in analogy to the classic meantone pump based on 80/81, which set up a dominant to tonic cadence. I feel these sequences are...
... In case anyone was wondering, the notes of the minimal scale for the 224/225 pump, in secor-chain format, are [-9, -8, -7, -3, -2, -1, 0, 4, 5, 6, 12] so...
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*BURIED TREASURE* "Percussion Instruments in the 19+3 Temperament" From: George Secor July 1, 2002 After I said the following a few days ago regarding my 19+3 ...
Hi Gene, ... I like it too - it's a neat thing and beautiful. There's nothing to stop you doing a similar thing the other way too - start within the finite /...
I'll take this to metatuning if you want but I've been sent two emails trying to get me to download or join porn sites. One had some hardcore thumbnail...
you mean this is the first time you've gotten porn spam? consider yourself lucky. just try getting a hotmail account and see what shows up in your inbox as...
... Well said, Jay ! Modulate and Mode both originate in the Latin 'modus', meaning measure. So yes, a change of key is not modulation. As for 'inversion',...
... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/38360 ... ***Hello, Joel! I believe, definitionally, that's a *row* not a *set.* A *set* is *un-ordered...*...
... all of ... Nor should any of us, which is why I said: << when it comes to taste, "mass" often correlates with "crass." >> ... hear a ... range ... The...
... we must be misunderstanding each other. ... since you probably missed it, one of the earliest blackjack examples which got joseph really excited about it...
... i can tune 17:13 by ear by eliminating beats. but by no means do i consider it at all concordant. david canright reported that tuning ratios of 21 and 23...
... Okay, that's great! I was just being cautious or conservative, with ... Used alone, I would agree. But used in a combination such as 9:13:17:21, I find...
... even ... for ... right -- this would also imply that the effective, audibly meaningful "limit" for otonalities is much higher than for utonalities (or even...
... did you mean "vertically" rather than "horizontally", joseph? here's a thought: julia, in her discussion in part 1, mentions franz- richter herf and his...
... Bartok ... hey, i think she draws a valid distinction here, and is free to draw up terminology for it as she sees fit (there certainly isn't a uniform...
... (1) All chords are major tetrads, minor tetrads, subminor tetrads, or supermajor tetrads (2) The pentultimate chord is the dominant major tetrad (3) All...
... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/38369 ... draw ... is ... paper, ... ***The comparisons she makes are interesting, but the fact that she sets...
... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/38368 ... tempered ... of ... pages, ... in ... ***My impression is that Johnny has not fully read the...