... test ... Hi Torsten, I thought it was about time I replied directly to one of your messages about a couple of things that weren't completely answered. ... ...
... Okay, I'll leave "temperament family" alone and use "class" in those instances required to avoid ambiguity.. ... Sure. ... you ... to a ... Because I said...
... In deed Joe ;-) what else as april-joke can we expect, on http://dereksh.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/happy-pi-day/ from a foolish man, that prefers: ...
I am new here and in trying to get educated on how to interpret some of this esoteric material, I wonder if you would indulge me in giving the series of notes...
By the way I just created a Facebook group for historical tunings... http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10207054057 - as it says, any and all reasonable...
... some ... giving ... some ... which ... Yes, C = 0 cents. ... Yes. ... Two octaves should suffice. You can think of this tuning as two separate circles of...
Thanks very much for all this. I will work through it. Since I get a digest of postings here, I forgot to check for replies before responding to the digest. So...
In the "17 tone paper" I found issue with the chronology from Pythagorean to 1/4 comma meantone temperament. From page 2 of the linked pdf, but indicating 56...
Where we left off... ... I did everything the same way, except instead of testing for consistency of an ET, I tested 9 different vals for each "ET" (rounded...
... Are you finding the val with least TOP damage? I thought you were. Can you check if your best results have lower TOP damage/step size than these? Here...
... I'm not finding the right vals. The routine gets the "best val" for each number of steps to the octave. But there's no number of steps to the octave that...
I wrote... ... This looks like 1/3 of 88CET. ... Looks suspiciously like 2 * the above. Graham wrote... ... Same as my results, except I have the 2nd and 3rd ...
Some of the links did not copy correctly from the H-Pi forum posting format to the Yahoo groups posting format. These are corrected below: Yarman Maqamat...
... tempered) ... by ... third), ... I would prefer to say that it was a synthesis of the two tunings in that the former contains just major 3rds, while the...
George` i quite like those synchronous beating tempermentsof yours. i played though a couple of them when you where first postingthem to the list. It deserves...
Dear all, [This is possibly a newbie FAQ, please point me to the relevant literature in this case :) ] thanks again for your many responses (in particular to...
Hi Kraig, Synch. beating well temperaments got a huge response here (and on tuning-math) after Bob Wendell introduced the idea in 2004 (IIRC). Several people...
I must of been off list for that one. all the mt. Meru scales BTW have this property ,',',',Kraig Grady,',',', '''''''North/Western Hemisphere: North...
Hi Torsten, ... If the period (P) and generator (G) are given as frequency ratios (e.g. the Pythagorean regime with 2/1 and 3/2), the pitches of a scale...
Dear Carl, thank you very much for your reply including these simple formulas. Thanks helpful. Just for my better understanding: with your following formula I...
Dear Carl, thanks a lot for these Python lines. It appears to me that your formula differs slightly from Carl's. I am translating them into a common format: ...
Hi everyone, I thought about searching for a well temperament where the notes are harmonics of a common fundamental. The criteria were that there would be no...
... The "mod Period" part adds or subtracts a number of periods such that (Generator * N mod Period) is always between a unison and a period. This is an...
... Some of us, or maybe it's just me stuck in mud, fail to see how synchronous beating is of much use on any non-electronic instruments to be played by...