source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 07:57:23 -0800 Subject: RE: Positive Linear Temperaments From: Paul Hahn On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, PAULE wrote: > John C. wrote: > >Doubly postive systems resembling 22-tet are also possible. I > >will post some such tunings at a later date. > > What is the definition of "doubly positive?" Do you mean, two positive > systems separated by exactly one-half octave? I suspect what John means by "doubly positive" is that the Pythagorean comma (12 fifths - 7 octaves) is represented by two positive scale steps. --pH (manynote@library.wustl.edu or http://library.wustl.edu/~manynote) O /\ "'Jever take'n try to give an ironclad leave to -\-\-- o yourself from a three-rail billiard shot?" Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:40 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA10029; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:40:13 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA10032 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id IAA15175; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 08:38:30 -0800 Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 08:38:30 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu