source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 16:27:43 -0800 Subject: Classifying Tunings From: TONY SALINAS I can see two clear groups of tunings: A) The ones using fractions as ratios B) The ones using roots to determine the ratio Meantone and XVI to XVIII century western tunings (non 12ET) would be in between I suppose??? I'm still missing out of this two groups Gamelan and Javanese tunnings. any others??? According to the Maths applied on the tuning, how would you classify them??? Anyway, I don't think mathematics are always used to calculate tunings (like specially with Gamelan / African tunings ), so probably is better to classify tunings historically within the different cultures. Tony Salinas Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 01:33 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA11039; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 01:33:18 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA11035 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id QAA06890; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 16:30:49 -0800 Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 16:30:49 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu