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== [[31edo]] ==

: '''ArrowHead''': The first non-12edo tuning I knew about, I got interested in it through Baroque and Renaissance music due to it being an excellent representation of quarter-comma meantone. Personally, I think this is the best alternative tuning for most non-classical Western musicians to use. The number of notes is not overly unwieldy (though it is pushing the limits of practicality on guitars and basses), and the differences between its sound and 12edo's sound are big enough that people will notice (and therefore they might actually care) but not so big that it sounds jarring like 19edo can be (and often is)~~. Works great for contemporary worship and songs with largely pentatonic melodies such as Hillsong's ''Highlands''~~.

: '''ArrowHead''': The first non-12edo tuning I knew about, I got interested in it through Baroque and Renaissance music due to it being an excellent representation of quarter-comma meantone. Personally, I think this is the best alternative tuning for most non-classical Western musicians to use. It's especially good for contemporary worship music and songs with largely pentatonic melodies such as Hillsong's ''Highlands''. The number of notes is not overly unwieldy (though it is pushing the limits of practicality on guitars and basses), and the differences between its sound and 12edo's sound are big enough that people will notice (and therefore they might actually care) but not so big that it sounds jarring like 19edo can be (and often is).

: '''Aura''': Working with Superlocrian in this EDO is again interesting, but it's easier to do with this EDO than with 27edo.

: '''Bozu''': This is sort of the gold standard of meantone tuning. Composite hypopent. Great thirds and fifths and everything else used to make western-esque music, and also some really nifty other spicier options. Very user-friendly. If you start with 12edo and go to 19edo and like it, this would be the obvious next recommendation. My only complaint here is that we are starting to get into the territory of having too many notes to easily perform on a guitar or standard black-and-white-key two row keyboard. Going with subsets at this point is beneficial, but those provide new challenges.

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 == [[31edo]] ==
-: '''ArrowHead''': The first non-12edo tuning I knew about, I got interested in it through Baroque and Renaissance music due to it being an excellent representation of quarter-comma meantone. Personally, I think this is the best alternative tuning for most non-classical Western musicians to use. The number of notes is not overly unwieldy (though it is pushing the limits of practicality on guitars and basses), and the differences between its sound and 12edo's sound are big enough that people will notice (and therefore they might actually care) but not so big that it sounds jarring like 19edo can be (and often is). Works great for contemporary worship and songs with largely pentatonic melodies such as Hillsong's ''Highlands''.
+: '''ArrowHead''': The first non-12edo tuning I knew about, I got interested in it through Baroque and Renaissance music due to it being an excellent representation of quarter-comma meantone. Personally, I think this is the best alternative tuning for most non-classical Western musicians to use. It's especially good for contemporary worship music and songs with largely pentatonic melodies such as Hillsong's ''Highlands''. The number of notes is not overly unwieldy (though it is pushing the limits of practicality on guitars and basses), and the differences between its sound and 12edo's sound are big enough that people will notice (and therefore they might actually care) but not so big that it sounds jarring like 19edo can be (and often is).
 : '''Aura''': Working with Superlocrian in this EDO is again interesting, but it's easier to do with this EDO than with 27edo.
 : '''Bozu''': This is sort of the gold standard of meantone tuning.  Composite hypopent.  Great thirds and fifths and everything else used to make western-esque music, and also some really nifty other spicier options.  Very user-friendly.  If you start with 12edo and go to 19edo and like it, this would be the obvious next recommendation.  My only complaint here is that we are starting to get into the territory of having too many notes to easily perform on a guitar or standard black-and-white-key two row keyboard.  Going with subsets at this point is beneficial, but those provide new challenges.