source file: m1497.txt
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 14:42:24 -0500 (CDT)

Subject: Re: Numbers, cont.

From: Paul Hahn <Paul-Hahn@library.wustl.edu>

On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, John Chalmers wrote:
> As for 9-tone scales in 31-tet, David Rothenberg and Connie Chan studied
> this one: 5 3 3 3 3 5 3 3 3, generated by a chain of 14 degrees of 31-tet.
>  This scale is an MOS, is strictly proper,

Call me a heretic, but I'm beginning to wonder if these properties
aren't as important as I'd once thought they were.  Look at the success
of the minor pentatonic in Japan, for example.

>                                            has "stability" of 1.0 and
> "efficiency" of .7407.

Shame on me, but I don't even know what these measure signify.  Help,
please.

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