Keemun: Difference between revisions

This temperament was originally discovered by [[Dave Keenan]]<ref>Dave Keenan's original write-up, which according to Paul Erlich "implies" this temperament: https://dkeenan.com/Music/ChainOfMinor3rds.htm</ref>.  

[[Keenanisma#Name|As he did for the comma now known as the "keenanisma"]], Dave Keenan resisted the temperament being named after him, and for the same reason: Dave prefers descriptive names to eponymous ones, because they are more useful. In this case, he suggested the name "Minorthirds". Unfortunately, by the time Dave's preference reached [[Paul Erlich]], Paul had already begun to use the name "Keenan" in a series of diagrams, and so renaming it to something like "Minorthirds" at this point would require an inordinate amount of reordering busywork. Due to this, the effort to rename the temperament continued, but with the additional constraint that the name could not alter its alphabetical ordering with respect to its nearest neighboring temperaments in Paul's diagrams. The name chosen in the end, "Keemun", was suggested by [[Herman Miller]] as a reference to [[Wikipedia:Keemun|the famous tea]]<ref>https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning-math/topicId_13712#13775</ref>. While this name satisfies Paul's alphabetical ordering preservation constraint, it does not satisfy Dave's descriptiveness constraint, and thereby misses the point of Dave's original request for it not to be named after him. Dave was never inherently anti-eponym, yet now this temperament that could simply have been named for him is instead a distorted version of his name for no good reason.