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'''Lucy tuning''' is the [[meantone]] tuning advocated by [[Charles Lucy]], with a fifth of precisely 600 + 300/π = 695.493 [[cent]]s. This is close to the [[88edo]] fifth of 695.455 [[cent]]s, and shares its general characteristics such as being a good tuning for [[Gamelismic clan#Mothra|mothra]] and [[Didymus rank three family#Euterpe|euterpe]] temperaments, providing a mothra generator, an approximate [[8/7]], of 200+100/π cents, which extends [[5-limit]] meantone Lucy tuning to a version with a mothra (1/3 meantone fifth) generator. As a tuning for 5-limit meantone, it has the softer quality characteristic of the flatter fifth meantones between [[50edo]] and [[19edo]]. It has a major third of 1200/π cents, or 1/π of an octave, 381.972 cents, 4.342 cents flat of [[5/4]], but 2.827 cents sharp of [[1/3-comma meantone]]'s major third.

A reasonable mapping for [[11-limit]] extended Lucy tuning would be

: <math>\val{1200 & 1800 + \frac{300}{π} & 2400 + \frac{1200}{π} & 3400 - \frac{100}{π} & 4400 - \frac{800}{π}}</math>

 

This tempers out the mothra [[comma]]s of 81/80, 1029/1024, 99/98 and 385/384. While Charles Lucy himself does not seem to consider the possibility of extending Lucy tuning, it should be noted that the mothra mapping above gives a 7/4 of 1000-100/π, a mere 0.659 cents flat of a [[7/4|just 7/4]]. Another way to extend Lucy tuning is meanpop:

 

: <math>\val{1200 & 1800 + \frac{300}{π} & 2400 + \frac{1200}{π} & 2400 + \frac{3000}{π} & 5400 - \frac{3900}{π}}</math>

 

Since this does not involve splitting the generator into thirds, it is closer to Lucy's 5-limit perspective.

 

== External links ==

* [http://www.lucytune.com Official website]

* [http://www.myspace.com/lucytuning Myspace profile]

* [http://tonalsoft.com/enc/l/lucy-tuning.aspx LucyTuning and 88-ed2 / 88-edo / 88-ET / 88-tone equal-temperament, and 3/10-comma meantone] on [[Tonalsoft Encyclopedia]]

 

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