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70098
Greetings tuning revolutionaries, This message should be of interest to anyone who suspects there might be more than 12 pitches in an octave. :-) Anna...
Dave Keenan
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Mar 1, 2007
8:23 am
70099
... I think I'll propose "quark" as the name for 1/4-comma. In 1/4-comma meantone, the fifth is flat by a quarter comma, a quar c, or quark. In 441-et, the...
Gene Ward Smith
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Mar 1, 2007
8:49 am
70100
... think of ... harmonic ... Yes. If treated as a kind of fifth 5:7 must be called subdiminished. ...
Dave Keenan
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Mar 1, 2007
12:34 pm
70101
... 1/(9:7:6:5) is a supermajor minor seventh (SMm7). ... 1/(10:9:7:6) would probably just be a bad voicing of the above, although if pushed you could call it...
Dave Keenan
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Mar 1, 2007
12:53 pm
70102
... boathook-and-arc symbol ~|) for the 49-small-diesis (48:49) which unfortunately does not appear in the version 1 TrueType font or character map currently...
Aaron Krister Johnson
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Mar 1, 2007
2:02 pm
70103
In a message dated 3/1/2007 3:57:23 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, tuning@yahoogroups.com writes: Yeah, I want to know too. THe only far modullating composers I...
Afmmjr@...
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Mar 1, 2007
3:36 pm
70104
... He just posted to tuning-math on the 15th! -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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Mar 1, 2007
4:37 pm
70105
Johnny-- This makes sense. 1200-et is indeed accurate enough for any acoustic situation (some might say overkill, since you could probably get away with the...
Aaron Krister Johnson
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Mar 1, 2007
5:09 pm
70106
... Any 7-limit temperament with a fifth as generator ("brigeable") can do that, in particular garibaldi. Unfortunately, C-Fb-G-Cbb just doesn't fit our...
Gene Ward Smith
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Mar 1, 2007
7:50 pm
70107
... thinking ... That "new" symbol pair is well over a half-century old -- or did you mean new to Sagittal? Gene, I'm afraid that I've inadvertently opened a...
George D. Secor
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Mar 1, 2007
8:06 pm
70108
... discussed. ... can include ... I dunno. I think I prefer 3600 et notation. That happens to be an excellent ennealimmal tuning, and its 7-limit comma basis...
Gene Ward Smith
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Mar 1, 2007
8:18 pm
70109
... think of ... harmonic ... There is ... else has ... the just ... With my proposal to tune the dominant 7th in common practice as 4:5:6:50/7, i.e....
Tom Dent
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Mar 1, 2007
8:19 pm
70110
... get 3 ... Yeah, sorry! ... there ... ~|) ... (; ... Yeah, sorry again! ... At least I got that one right. :-) --George...
George D. Secor
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Mar 1, 2007
8:38 pm
70111
... You are raising 16/9 by 225/224 to get 25/14, but that means you are sharp by a septimal kleisma of the subdominant. This means you are going to get into...
Gene Ward Smith
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Mar 1, 2007
8:49 pm
70112
... I took the list of all 11-limit pairwise consonant tetrads in 72-et, and checked for the smallest "Tymoczko distance" to this chord. Here Tymoczko distance...
Gene Ward Smith
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Mar 1, 2007
9:49 pm
70113
... http://www.geocities.jp/imyfujita/wtcuncertain.html...
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Mar 1, 2007
9:50 pm
70114
... Yes. Garibaldi (a.k.a. 7-limit schismic) would be more precise than meantone and the notation problem is solved by adding the single pair of sagittal...
Dave Keenan
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Mar 1, 2007
9:54 pm
70115
... Maybe just overzealous spam filters or something. I'd be very grateful if someone else could get his attention....
Dave Keenan
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Mar 1, 2007
11:07 pm
70116
... That looks pretty practical to me. You can extend to the 11-limit by adding 385/384 as a comma, and then F// is your 11/8. C-D-E\-F//-G-Bb\ is the complete...
Gene Ward Smith
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Mar 1, 2007
11:14 pm
70117
http://users.bigpond.net.au/d.keenan/sagittal/Sagittal2_character_map.xls Sorry for the duplication, but in many ways this spreadsheet is more significant than...
Dave Keenan
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Mar 1, 2007
11:48 pm
70118
... Sure, but it's comparable with the 1/4-comma shifts of adaptive JI, which I think are a reasonable model for flexible intonation in cases where comma...
Tom Dent
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Mar 2, 2007
12:02 am
70119
... Yes. Well done. And I assume you are aware of the single Sagittal symbol for the double 5-comma or 25-small-diesis up. You can see it at character code 164...
Dave Keenan
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Mar 2, 2007
12:05 am
70120
... (225/224)^3/(81/80) = 703125/702464, a comma which has been sitting around on my 7-limit comma list for years without me or anyone else paying it much...
Gene Ward Smith
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Mar 2, 2007
12:49 am
70121
... It's now well and truly documented! Thanks for the nudge. http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/70117 ... Sure. But both of those are valid...
Dave Keenan
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Mar 2, 2007
12:57 am
70122
... It mostly seems to work in OpenOffice, except for the green rows, which don't use the Sagittal font for some reason. Additionally, most of the characters...
Herman Miller
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Mar 2, 2007
2:59 am
70123
... OpenOffice) would be gratefully received. ... which ... My main problem is that it isn't clear what the symbols are symbols for; I guess an ascii table...
Gene Ward Smith
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Mar 2, 2007
3:02 am
70124
... Well, I couldn't figure out how to get the green background to work without changing the font on the Sagittal symbols, so I disabled the conditional style...
Herman Miller
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Mar 2, 2007
3:08 am
70125
... I'm here! And spring break is next week, so I'm free of my usual loads of coursework (which isn't to say I have nothing to do, but I might have time to...
Keenan Pepper
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Mar 2, 2007
4:11 am
70126
... Thanks Herman. It would be great if you can get it all fixed up and email it to me so I can put it up on the website for others. -- Dave Keenan...
Dave Keenan
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Mar 2, 2007
4:21 am
70127
... Which names are you referring to? Do you mean the comma names in relation to notating JI? Yes. The reader needs to know that if you want to know how to...
Dave Keenan
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Mar 2, 2007
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