135/128
| Ratio | 135/128 |
| Factorization | 2-7 × 33 × 5 |
| Monzo | [-7 3 1⟩ |
| Size in cents | 92.178716¢ |
| Names | ptolemaic chromatic semitone, major limma, major chroma, mavila comma |
| Color name | Ly1, layo unison, Layobi comma |
| FJS name | [math]\text{A1}^{5}[/math] |
| Special properties | reduced, reduced harmonic |
| Tenney height (log2 nd) | 14.0768 |
| Weil height (log2 max(n, d)) | 14.1536 |
| Wilson height (sopfr (nd)) | 28 |
| Harmonic entropy (Shannon, [math]\sqrt{nd}[/math]) |
~4.3033 bits |
| Comma size | medium |
| S-expression | S3 / S4 |
[sound info] | |
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The 5-limit interval 135/128, about 92.2 cents in size, is called the ptolemaic chromatic semitone, the major limma or the major chroma. It is a syntonic comma away from the Pythagorean chromatic semitone 2187/2048, and so is tuned justly in 1/7-comma meantone. Flattening by another syntonic comma reaches the even simpler 25/24. In regular 5-limit diatonic systems, it is the chromatic semitone that compliments 16/15, as the two semitones add up to 9/8.
Temperaments
If 135/128 is treated as a comma to be tempered out, it may be called the mavila comma. It represents the difference between three perfect fourths and a just major third (plus an octave). Tempering it out results in the mavila temperament.
135/128 is very close to one step of 13edo, in fact being a semiconvergent. Aluminium temperament realizes this through a regular temperament lens.
See also
- 256/135 – its octave complement
- Aluminium comma - the difference between a stack of 13 instances of this interval and 2/1
- Gallery of just intervals
- Medium comma
- File:Ji-135-128-csound-foscil-220hz.mp3 – another sound example