source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 07:31:07 -0700 Subject: 88CET Name From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@compuserve.com> One of Brian's recent posts mentioned - in essence - a concern that calling the approximately 13.63TET scale I've been discussing for a while now "88CET" puts undue emphasis on its 88-cent constructor interval. That at the expense of the more important intervals in terms of musical organization. I agree that that's a meaningful concern. Still, I came to the conclusion early on that naming it after its step size was the only precise way. Like Wendy Carlos' Alpha and Beta tunings, and unlike Pierce-Bohlen or octave-based equal-temperaments, 88CET doesn't split any simple harmonic relationship into even pieces. But as far as I'm concerned, you're welcome to think of it as 3 equal steps per 7:6, 4 steps per 11:9, 5 per 9:7, 7 per 10:7, 8 per 3:2, 10 per 5:3, 11 per 7:4, 18 per 5:2, or 41 per 8:1. That assuming you realize that its approximations to those frequency ratios are close but not exact. In either case, I'd prefer there to be a single name for the tuning, so that we don't risk calling it seven different things and not realize that we're talking about the same thing! For example, I think it would be a bad idea to call Carlos' Alpha "78CET", since plenty of literature already exists on it under the name "Alpha". By the way, I have an all-new 88CET lecture/demo with more music on it. If you want to hear some of the sounds I've been blabbering about, lemme know. Unfortunately my DAT deck is in the shop at the moment, so it'll be a while before I can send out copies. Grumble... Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 17:16 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id BAA04610; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 01:17:07 -0700 Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 01:17:07 -0700 Message-Id: <9510290716.aa25717@cyber.cyber.net> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu