source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 11:55:06 +0200 Subject: ratios in JI From: Pieter Smit Dear list members, I am getting a little confused now. (Forgive me, I am new to the list.) If one takes the harmonic series of overtones of a note, say C, then the following happens: frequency - note f - C 2f - c 3f - g 4f - c' 5f - e' 6f - g' 7f - is this B-flat? 8f - c'' 9f - d'' 10f - e'' and so on. Would the 'natural' scale then be in the ratios 1, 9/8, 5/4, 11/8, 3/2, 13/8, 7/4, 15/8, 2 for the scale CDEFGA(B-flat)Bc ? Do I get this right? What would this scale be called, and how would it sound ? What would the scale be called 1, 9/8, 5/4, 4/3, 3/2, ......., where the fourth is tuned as a perfect fifth below ? Would this be the JI scale? Pieter Smit. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 16 May 1997 13:13 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03665; Fri, 16 May 1997 13:12:59 +0200 Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 13:12:59 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03663 Received: (qmail 11340 invoked from network); 16 May 1997 11:12:55 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 May 1997 11:12:55 -0000 Message-Id: <970516071009_811850155@emout14.mail.aol.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu