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75789
... 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. ... ...
George D. Secor
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Apr 1, 2008
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75790
... Okay, I'll leave "temperament family" alone and use "class" in those instances required to avoid ambiguity.. ... Sure. ... you ... to a ... Because I said...
George D. Secor
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Apr 1, 2008
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75791
... 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: ...
Andreas Sparschuh
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Apr 1, 2008
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75792
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...
tuneit99
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Apr 4, 2008
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75793
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...
Tom Dent
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Apr 4, 2008
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75794
... some ... giving ... some ... which ... Yes, C = 0 cents. ... Yes. ... Two octaves should suffice. You can think of this tuning as two separate circles of...
George D. Secor
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Apr 4, 2008
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75795
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...
tuneit99
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Apr 5, 2008
12:25 am
75796
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...
tuneit99
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Apr 5, 2008
8:53 pm
75797
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...
Carl Lumma
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Apr 6, 2008
12:29 am
75798
Graham & I wrote... ... In my new file, the results are: "ET" primes val triad 41 (5 13 17) <96 153 169] tetrad 41 (5 11 13 17...
Carl Lumma
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Apr 6, 2008
12:35 am
75799
... Dunno. None of them are in my results. Graham...
Graham Breed
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Apr 6, 2008
1:23 am
75800
... 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...
Carl Lumma
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Apr 6, 2008
2:50 am
75801
... 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...
Graham Breed
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Apr 6, 2008
3:49 am
75802
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 ...
Carl Lumma
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Apr 6, 2008
5:24 am
75803
... I also use a complexity for the basis. The sum of the logs of the primes I think. So 5 wins out over 13. Graham...
Graham Breed
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Apr 6, 2008
5:27 am
75804
... That's one way to partially counteract the effects of the Tenney weighting (depending on when you apply it). -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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Apr 6, 2008
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75805
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...
Aaron Andrew Hunt
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Apr 7, 2008
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75806
... 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 D. Secor
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Apr 7, 2008
7:32 pm
75807
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...
kraiggrady@...
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Apr 7, 2008
8:08 pm
75808
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...
Torsten Anders
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Apr 7, 2008
10:15 pm
75809
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...
Carl Lumma
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Apr 7, 2008
10:20 pm
75810
 I must of been off list for that one.  all the mt. Meru scales BTW have this property ,',',',Kraig Grady,',',', '''''''North/Western Hemisphere:  North...
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Apr 7, 2008
10:50 pm
75811
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...
Carl Lumma
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Apr 8, 2008
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75812
... Here's a simplification of my Python code scale = [] for nSteps in range(stepsPerPeriod): root = (nSteps*generator)%period for repeat in...
Graham Breed
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Apr 8, 2008
2:32 am
75813
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...
Torsten Anders
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Apr 8, 2008
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75814
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: ...
Torsten Anders
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Apr 8, 2008
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75815
Oops, this should of course read "Dear Graham"....
Torsten Anders
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Apr 8, 2008
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75816
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...
Kalle Aho
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Apr 8, 2008
12:37 pm
75817
... 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...
Graham Breed
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Apr 8, 2008
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75818
... 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...
Brad Lehman
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Apr 8, 2008
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