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The harmonisma, 10648/10647, plays a striking role in [[Secor29htt|George Secor's 29-tone high tolerance temperament]] of 1975, the first temperament in the High Tolerance Temperament family. In this tuning, the fifth at 703.579 cents produces an augmented second (+9 fifths) at a just [[63/52]] (9/8 × 14/13), or a diminished seventh (-9 fifths) at [[104/63]], which exceeds three 13/11 thirds by a harmonisma. The 63/52 exceeds the Pythagorean augmented second, 19683/16384 (a 32805/32768 schisma larger than 6/5), by the [[secorian comma]], 28672/28431. Likewise 104/63 is narrower than the Pythagorean 32768/19683 by 28672/28431.

The secorian comma is made up of ([[896/891]] × [[352/351]]) or in other words (352/351 × 364/363 × 352/351), and is thus a harmonisma smaller than (352/351)3. In 29-HTT, each 13/11 is thus a third of a harmonisma or 0.054 cents wider than just. Secor's HTT fifth of 703.579 cents, or precisely (504/13)1/9 or wide by 1/9 of a secorian comma, would thus need to be 1/9 harmonisma larger at 703.597 cents to produce a just 13/11, a temperament of the fifth by (352/351)1/3.

The [[secorian comma]] is made up of ([[896/891]] × [[352/351]]) or in other words (352/351 × 364/363 × 352/351), and is thus a harmonisma smaller than (352/351)3. In 29-HTT, each 13/11 is thus a third of a harmonisma or 0.054 cents wider than just. Secor's HTT fifth of 703.579 cents, or precisely (504/13)1/9 or wide by 1/9 of a secorian comma, would thus need to be 1/9 harmonisma larger at 703.597 cents to produce a just 13/11, a temperament of the fifth by (352/351)1/3.

Another manifestation of the harmonisma in 29-HTT is the tuning of 11/9 at 347.353 cents, a third of a harmonisma narrow. Here 7/4 is just, with the spacing between the relevant chains of fifths in a subset of 29-HTT which served as a prototype for parapyth temperament at 58.090 cents, as compared with the [[91/88]] spacing which would produce a just 7/4 if the regular major sixth were at a just 22/13. But it is a third of a harmonisma narrow, and the spacing consequently a third of a harmonisma greater.

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 The harmonisma, 10648/10647, plays a striking role in [[Secor29htt|George Secor's 29-tone high tolerance temperament]] of 1975, the first temperament in the High Tolerance Temperament family. In this tuning, the fifth at 703.579 cents produces an augmented second (+9 fifths) at a just [[63/52]] (9/8 × 14/13), or a diminished seventh (-9 fifths) at [[104/63]], which exceeds three 13/11 thirds by a harmonisma. The 63/52 exceeds the Pythagorean augmented second, 19683/16384 (a 32805/32768 schisma larger than 6/5), by the [[secorian comma]], 28672/28431. Likewise 104/63 is narrower than the Pythagorean 32768/19683 by 28672/28431.
-The secorian comma is made up of ([[896/891]] × [[352/351]]) or in other words (352/351 × 364/363 × 352/351), and is thus a harmonisma smaller than (352/351)<sup>3</sup>. In 29-HTT, each 13/11 is thus a third of a harmonisma or 0.054 cents wider than just. Secor's HTT fifth of 703.579 cents, or precisely (504/13)<sup>1/9</sup> or wide by 1/9 of a secorian comma, would thus need to be 1/9 harmonisma larger at 703.597 cents to produce a just 13/11, a temperament of the fifth by (352/351)<sup>1/3</sup>.
+The [[secorian comma]] is made up of ([[896/891]] × [[352/351]]) or in other words (352/351 × 364/363 × 352/351), and is thus a harmonisma smaller than (352/351)<sup>3</sup>. In 29-HTT, each 13/11 is thus a third of a harmonisma or 0.054 cents wider than just. Secor's HTT fifth of 703.579 cents, or precisely (504/13)<sup>1/9</sup> or wide by 1/9 of a secorian comma, would thus need to be 1/9 harmonisma larger at 703.597 cents to produce a just 13/11, a temperament of the fifth by (352/351)<sup>1/3</sup>.
 Another manifestation of the harmonisma in 29-HTT is the tuning of 11/9 at 347.353 cents, a third of a harmonisma narrow. Here 7/4 is just, with the spacing between the relevant chains of fifths in a subset of 29-HTT which served as a prototype for parapyth temperament at 58.090 cents, as compared with the [[91/88]] spacing which would produce a just 7/4 if the regular major sixth were at a just 22/13. But it is a third of a harmonisma narrow, and the spacing consequently a third of a harmonisma greater.