source file: m1609.txt Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 07:11:14 -0500 Subject: Re: Radiant Christmas {chords} From: Gary Morrison > * As far as acronyms go=85 (E)quidistant (D)ivision of the (O)ctave=92s= =97 EDO, is > certainly seems to me a rather colorless creation (immanently indispose= d as > it is to the oddly resonant charm of (T)one (E)qual (T)emperament=92s=97= TET), My immediate take would be that the two are not exactly synonymous, by= which I mean "equidistant divisions of an octave" and "equal temperament", the distinguishing case being nonoctave equal temperaments. Carlos' Alpha, f= or example, would be an equal temperament, but no particular subdivision of = the octave. Well, not an integer division anyway, and if not integer, then t= hat nomenclature becomes inconvenient.