source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 09:01:20 -0800 Subject: Reply to Bruce Gilson From: PAULE >Now the only tempered scales that permit this are those >with 5x + 2y tones, with x > y > 0. This means 12, 17, 19, 22, 24, 26, ... >and certainly both 19 and 22 qualify [. . .] I think that melodically, from what I've said, assuming >that most tunes consist of sequences from the diatonic scale up or down for large portions of >their scope, 19, 12, or 22 will sound all about the same. In 22, you can only get a resonable-sounding diatonic scale with three different-sized steps, and one scale degree has to be "mutable" to accomodate the syntonic comma. A 5x + 2y scale in 22 will sound WAY off (although beautiful in its own right). Bruce, I don't think you thought this through. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:01 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA04396; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:02:12 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA30850 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA17854; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 09:02:10 -0800 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 09:02:10 -0800 Message-Id: <40961030170104/0005695065PK5EM@MCIMAIL.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu