source file: m1349.txt Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 15:54:07 -0500 Subject: RE: Meantone From: "Paul H. Erlich" Graham Breed wrote, >}Now, on the meantone thread, I do now own a guitar and I'm thinking >}about how to refret it. I've decided it has to be a meantone >}temperament, with 19 frets per octave and a bonus fret at the top. >}At the moment, I'm planning on a tone of 160.8 moct, which makes a >}fifth of about 696.5 cents. Comments would be welcome, but I'm >}fairly independently minded, so I'll probably go ahead with this >}anyway. > >Why not go for 31-equal? Your smallest intervals will be virtually the same, >you'll have the same tones on every string, full modulational flexibility, >more and better 7-, 9-, and 11-limit harmonies, etc.