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== Chord spelling ==

Thanks for posting this. I've been interested in how to translate this chord into different tuning since I first started experimenting with tuning.

To my ears, the literal spelling of E7#9 sounds really off in 19-edo, with the #9 sounding irritatingly flat. E7x9 (or E7addm10) sounds much more Hendrix-y to my ears, but, it's not like there is an accepted interpretation by music scholars. Playing around with the chord in JI systems, I noticed also that the dom7aug9 spelling yields a weird vibe that doesn't strike me well.

What are you interpretations? --[[User:Bozu|Bozu]] ([[User talk:Bozu|talk]]) 12:46, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

== Voicings ==

The “Hendrix chord” as it is usually discussed by rock musicians is not just an octave-equivalent set of intervals, but rather a specific voicing of the chord. For a musician like Hendrix playing with high gain and distortion, the specific voicing matters a lot in how we hear the chord. I'm going to try to fix the page to talk about the Hendrix chord per se rather than a generically voiced dom7#9no5.

Moreover, since many guitarists describe chords in terms of meantone, I think it's useful to present a 5-limit voicing in addition to the current 19- and 7-limit ones, and to present the different tunings more neutrally (rather than to describe the 7-limit as merely “an alternate”).

--[[User:Bcmills|Bcmills]] ([[User talk:Bcmills|talk]]) 02:33, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

== Color notation ==

I think the use of color notation in this article is doing more to distract here than it is to clarify, and I don't want to figure out the color notation for the 5-limit chord (see above), so I'm going to remove that part to focus the page on the chord itself rather than its notation in an esoteric system.

--[[User:Bcmills|Bcmills]] ([[User talk:Bcmills|talk]]) 02:33, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

== Essentially tempered? ==

After some discussion on the XA Discord, we're not sure why the 19-limit chord would be considered “essentially tempered”: the 7-limit interpretation looks essentially just, and the 19-limit interpretation also uses prime 7, so if the Hendrix comma is tempered out (equating the two) then the chord seems to be essentially just — not essentially tempered — by virtue of its 7-limit mapping.

[[User:FloraC|FloraC]] thinks the original author may have been thinking about [[Dyadic_chord#List_of_essentially_just_dyadic_chords|plurichords]] instead.

--[[User:Bcmills|Bcmills]] ([[User talk:Bcmills|talk]]) 05:03, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

== Mess of infoboxes ==

This page looks terrible because it's just a bunch of stacked infoboxes. Please try to actually write some prose instead of dumping auto-generated info.

Secondly, the some of these 'interpretations' are very dubious. Last time I checked, Hendrix was just playing in 12edo.

– [[User:Sintel|Sintel🎏]] ([[User_talk:Sintel|talk]]) 13:27, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

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+== Chord spelling ==
+Thanks for posting this.  I've been interested in how to translate this chord into different tuning since I first started experimenting with tuning.
+To my ears, the literal spelling of E7#9 sounds really off in 19-edo, with the #9 sounding irritatingly flat.  E7x9 (or E7addm10) sounds much more Hendrix-y to my ears, but, it's not like there is an accepted interpretation by music scholars.  Playing around with the chord in JI systems, I noticed also that the dom7aug9 spelling yields a weird vibe that doesn't strike me well.
+What are you interpretations?  --[[User:Bozu|Bozu]] ([[User talk:Bozu|talk]]) 12:46, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
+== Voicings ==
+The “Hendrix chord” as it is usually discussed by rock musicians is not just an octave-equivalent set of intervals, but rather a specific voicing of the chord. For a musician like Hendrix playing with high gain and distortion, the specific voicing matters a lot in how we hear the chord. I'm going to try to fix the page to talk about the Hendrix chord per se rather than a generically voiced dom7#9no5.
+Moreover, since many guitarists describe chords in terms of meantone, I think it's useful to present a 5-limit voicing in addition to the current 19- and 7-limit ones, and to present the different tunings more neutrally (rather than to describe the 7-limit as merely “an alternate”).
+--[[User:Bcmills|Bcmills]] ([[User talk:Bcmills|talk]]) 02:33, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
+== Color notation ==
+I think the use of color notation in this article is doing more to distract here than it is to clarify, and I don't want to figure out the color notation for the 5-limit chord (see above), so I'm going to remove that part to focus the page on the chord itself rather than its notation in an esoteric system.
+--[[User:Bcmills|Bcmills]] ([[User talk:Bcmills|talk]]) 02:33, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
+== Essentially tempered? ==
+After some discussion on the XA Discord, we're not sure why the 19-limit chord would be considered “essentially tempered”: the 7-limit interpretation looks essentially just, and the 19-limit interpretation also uses prime 7, so if the Hendrix comma is tempered out (equating the two) then the chord seems to be essentially just — not essentially tempered — by virtue of its 7-limit mapping.
+[[User:FloraC|FloraC]] thinks the original author may have been thinking about [[Dyadic_chord#List_of_essentially_just_dyadic_chords|plurichords]] instead.
+--[[User:Bcmills|Bcmills]] ([[User talk:Bcmills|talk]]) 05:03, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
+== Mess of infoboxes ==
+This page looks terrible because it's just a bunch of stacked infoboxes. Please try to actually write some prose instead of dumping auto-generated info.
+Secondly, the some of these 'interpretations' are very dubious. Last time I checked, Hendrix was just playing in 12edo.
+– [[User:Sintel|Sintel🎏]] ([[User_talk:Sintel|talk]]) 13:27, 26 April 2025 (UTC)