Mothra: Difference between revisions

| Odd limit 2 = (2.3.5.7) 21 | Mistuning 2 = 10.8 | Complexity 2 = 36

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'''Mothra''', also known as '''cynder''', is a temperament of the [[7-limit]] that is a strong extension to [[slendric]], which is defined by splitting a perfect fifth representing [[3/2]] into three intervals of [[8/7]], tempering out [[1029/1024]]. The fifth of mothra is flattened to a [[meantone]] fifth, so that it reaches [[5/4]] when stacked four times and [[81/80]] is tempered out, unlike that of the other slendric extension [[rodan]], which is sharpened from just. This has the effect of bringing the generator 8/7 considerably closer to just, and also allowing [[MOS scale]]s of mothra to be more melodically usable than those of other forms of slendric, as the structurally-pervasive small step known as the [[quark]] (the residue between the octave and 5 generators, representing [[49/48]], [[64/63]], and in mothra also [[36/35]]) is larger here. [[EDOs]] that support mothra include [[26edo]], [[31edo]], and [[36edo]], and 31 is a particularly good tuning.