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== [[12edo]] ==

: '''ArrowHead''': It's the smallest one that does 5-limit well, which is precisely why it's the most popular around the world today. Admittedly, it's by far the easiest tuning to get into, and is the best tuning to get started with in music. Has the largest possible contrast between major and minor for a meantone tuning, and the wide major thirds and narrow minor thirds are best for some areas of Western music but far from optimal for others. I also feel that other meantone tunings should be mentioned and touched upon to a decent degree after Western musicians get familiar with 12 so that they don't think 12 is somehow the be-all/end-all of tuning and are encouraged to explore other tunings.

: '''ArrowHead''': It's the smallest one that does 5-limit well, which is precisely why it's the most popular around the world today. Admittedly, it's by far the easiest tuning to get into, and is the best tuning to get started with in music. Has the largest possible contrast between major and minor for a meantone tuning, and the wide major thirds and narrow minor thirds are best for some areas of Western music but far from optimal for others, since the classic major and minor triads can sound quite sludgy on certain timbres such as organs. I also feel that other meantone tunings should be mentioned and touched upon to a decent degree after Western musicians get familiar with 12 so that they don't think 12 is somehow the be-all/end-all of tuning and are encouraged to explore other tunings.

: '''Aura''': Finally! The EDO I have the most extensive experience with. All my direct, first-hand experience with 1edo, 2edo, 3edo, 4edo and 6edo prior to me finishing this page came about because I have access to a 12edo instrument- my grandmother's piano. It is also from here that I've taken the bulk of my ideas on tonality—including my idea for Treble-Down tonality. I still use this EDO as a basis for forming harmonic and melodic ideas.

: '''Bozu''': Honestly, the best edo. Not too many notes, not too few. What notes are there sound great. It's the lowest composite hypopent, as well as the lowest composite of augmented and diminished. You can use it to affect major, minor, augmented, and diminished tonalities very well. The only place it truly falls short is anything beyond that. It's not too great at approximating higher order harmonics, nor does it offer any neutral intervals. It'd be sort of silly to think of a beginner musician starting with anything other than this or some form of meantone or JI that 12edo approximates.

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 == [[12edo]] ==
-: '''ArrowHead''': It's the smallest one that does 5-limit well, which is precisely why it's the most popular around the world today. Admittedly, it's by far the easiest tuning to get into, and is the best tuning to get started with in music. Has the largest possible contrast between major and minor for a meantone tuning, and the wide major thirds and narrow minor thirds are best for some areas of Western music but far from optimal for others. I also feel that other meantone tunings should be mentioned and touched upon to a decent degree after Western musicians get familiar with 12 so that they don't think 12 is somehow the be-all/end-all of tuning and are encouraged to explore other tunings.
+: '''ArrowHead''': It's the smallest one that does 5-limit well, which is precisely why it's the most popular around the world today. Admittedly, it's by far the easiest tuning to get into, and is the best tuning to get started with in music. Has the largest possible contrast between major and minor for a meantone tuning, and the wide major thirds and narrow minor thirds are best for some areas of Western music but far from optimal for others, since the classic major and minor triads can sound quite sludgy on certain timbres such as organs. I also feel that other meantone tunings should be mentioned and touched upon to a decent degree after Western musicians get familiar with 12 so that they don't think 12 is somehow the be-all/end-all of tuning and are encouraged to explore other tunings.
 : '''Aura''': Finally! The EDO I have the most extensive experience with. All my direct, first-hand experience with 1edo, 2edo, 3edo, 4edo and 6edo prior to me finishing this page came about because I have access to a 12edo instrument- my grandmother's piano. It is also from here that I've taken the bulk of my ideas on tonality—including my idea for Treble-Down tonality. I still use this EDO as a basis for forming harmonic and melodic ideas.
 : '''Bozu''': Honestly, the best edo. Not too many notes, not too few. What notes are there sound great. It's the lowest composite hypopent, as well as the lowest composite of augmented and diminished. You can use it to affect major, minor, augmented, and diminished tonalities very well. The only place it truly falls short is anything beyond that. It's not too great at approximating higher order harmonics, nor does it offer any neutral intervals. It'd be sort of silly to think of a beginner musician starting with anything other than this or some form of meantone or JI that 12edo approximates.