Technical data guide for regular temperaments: Difference between revisions
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== Tuning properties == | == Tuning properties == | ||
While an abstract regular temperament does not specify the values to which its intervals (meaning, its generators or valuations of primes) are tuned, it is clear that there are ways to set these values that are reasonable, and those that are absurd. For instance, meantone could be tuned with its "[[3/2]]" set to 675c, and therefore its "[[5/4]]" ~ "81/64" set to 4×675c - 2400c = 300c. However, this is an absurd tuning for meantone since 300c has a far better interpretation as [[6/5]] than 5/4, and the temperament providing that interpretation is instead [[mavila]]. | |||
Therefore, one can speak of temperaments as having finite "tuning ranges" for their generator, which is useful in the picture of building [[MOS scale]]s as finite subsets of the intervals available in the temperament. | |||
=== Optimal tuning(s) === | === Optimal tuning(s) === | ||