Gallery of other just intonation scales

This page presents a list of various just intonation scales which do not belong to another category or scale family. They are grouped below according to the person to whom the discovery was attributed.

Forrest Cahoon

• The 1-7/6-3/2-7/4 chord in Csound (a.k.a 12:14:18:21)
• The 1-7/6-3/2-7/4-2/1 chord (a.k.a 12:14:18:21:24, the ‘Sevens tetrachord’, a subset of 12afdo)
  • The Sevens (Soundcloud)
  • The Sevens (Micro.Soonlabel)^{[dead link]}

Jake Freivald

• Trithagorean
  • Three Days Apart
  • Trident's Flight

Kyle Gann

• ArcanaXVI Kyle Gann's scale for Arcana XVI
• Revisited Kyle Gann's scale for The Day Revisited
• CharingCross Kyle Gann's scale for Charing Cross Charing Cross by Kyle Gann
• FugitiveObjects Kyle Gann's scale for Fugitive Objects Fugitive Objects by Kyle Gann
• gann custer Kyle Gann, scale from Custer's Ghost to Sitting Bull, 1/1=G Custer's Ghost to Sitting Bull by Kyle Gann
• gann frac Kyle Gann's scale for Fractured Paradise Fractured Paradise by Kyle Gann
• gann ghost Kyle Gann, scale from Ghost Town, 1/1=E Ghost Town by Kyle Gann
• gann new aunts Kyle Gann, scale from New Aunts (2008), 1/1=A New Aunts by Kyle Gann
• gann things Kyle Gann, scale from How Miraculous Things Happen, 1/1=A How Miraculous Things Happen by Kyle Gann
• gann super Kyle Gann, scale from Superparticular Woman (1992), 1/1=G Superparticular Woman by Kyle Gann
• 8x8 scale, used in Hyperchromatica, where it is built on 1/1=Eb

Tarkan Grood

• Thirteenten Tarkan Grood's 2.3.13/5 scale
  • ThirteenTen live at GSIIR
  • MP3 recording

Maeve Gutierrez

• 7/6s-and-4/3s scale (8 tones, 7-limit, octave repeating)
• Moonglade scale (detempered version, 24 tones, 19-limit, octave repeating)
• Sunbreak scale (5 tones, 17-limit, octave repeating)
• Gutierrez-Lambeth quasi-subharmonic pentatonic (lists both a nonoctave and an octave-reduced version; 11-limit)

Lou Harrison

• Nature's Own: 1/1, 9/8, 7/6, 4/3, 19/12
• Kyai Gunter Sari pelog: 1/1, 13/12, 7/6, 17/12, 3/2, 19/12, 7/4, 2/1
  • Note: Harrison said that he didn't invent this tuning, and that it was the actual tuning used by Kyai Gunter Sari, the 18th century gamelan orchestra
  • Note: This scale is a subset of 12afdo

K. Lugheidh

• Kai-scifrk-interloper15mos-trans

Claudi Meneghin

• Claudi-enigma from 4-in-1 canon on Elgar's Enigma theme

Juhani Nuorvala

• Tritriad69 - from Night Scene from the play 'Blackbird' by Juhani Nuorvala

Wilfrid Parett

• Wilfrid Parett#Parett's 19-tone scale - discussed favorably by Harry Partch and Jacob Barton

Prent Rodgers

• ChevyShake Scale used in Prent Rodger's The Stick Shift Chevy Shake The Stick Shift Chevy Shake by Prent Rodgers
• Harmd-mix HarmD-Mixolydian. Harmonics 7-14 For the Downwinders by Prent Rodgera

Margo Schulter

• Xenogj24 Margo Schulter Neo-Gothic 3/17-flavor JI in 2.3.17/7 subgroup Pythagorean Enharmonic Improvisation 1

Joel Taylor

• Al-farabi_blue Al-Farabi Blue Study 1a2 by Joel Taylor
• Eikohole2 2nd eikohole ball study no 2 - a melody by Joel Taylor
• Grady_14 Grady 14 Study 1
• Grady 14 Study 6a1-756 by Joel Taylor
• Wilson 17 Wilson 17 Study 1a by Joel Taylor

Chris Vaisvil

• Hexlesfip22seed Fantasia for Electric Piano and Drum Kit by Chris Vaisvil
• Denny-24-to-48 Harmonics 24 Through 48 Inclusive by Chris Vaisvil
• Hilim13 Stuck at the Screaming Toll Booth by Chris Vaisvil

James Wyness

Wyness often uses multiple of these tunings at once in his compositions, tuning different instruments differently, effectively using polymicrotonality.

Based on slendro:

• 110Hz meta-slendro: 1/1, 8/7, 7/6, 4/3, 3/2, 12/7, 7/4, 2/1
• Si Aptos: 1/1, 8/7, 4/3, 3/2, 7/4, 2/1
• Mills: 1/1, 8/7, 4/3, 3/2, 12/7, 2/1
• Faraway: 1/1, 7/6, 4/3, 3/2, 7/4, 2/1

Based on pelog:

• Kai Udan Arum: 1/1, 16/15, 7/6, 4/3, 22/15, 47/30, 9/5, 2/1
  • Note: This scale is a subset of 30afdo

dotuXil

• The Chair of Mr. Bob

Abnormality

• Serpentine scale

eli5121

• 2.3.7.31 subgroup detemper of 5L 6s:
  • 9/8 - 147/128 - 651/512 - 21/16 - 93/64 - 3/2 - 49/32 - 217/128 - 7/4 - 31/16 - 2/1

Unknown discoverer

• Bohlen-p detempering
• 5-limit double harmonic major (3-SN)
• Trichord7 Trichordal undecatonic, 7-limit
• Stellarhex mandala/stelhex/cube(2) plus 7/6 and 7/5; convex in marvel tempering

See also

• Just intonation
• Prime limit
• User:BudjarnLambeth/WIP XA scales page