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I'm an avid player of central Javanese gamelan. While gamelan tuning is certainly a deep topic, I'm not as interested in that aspect of it compared to the melodies, the system of modes and elaborations, and the social/cultural/philosophical aspects of the music.

I have also been trying to correct misinformation propagated in the xen community about non-Western tunings; many claims about approximating EDOs/JI/temperaments range from questionable to completely wrong. For example, Javanese slendro is not 5edo. ~~It is~~ closer to 5edo than a 12edo pentatonic scale, but the tones are still uneven on most gamelan, and players certainly don't think of the tones as even given the strong differences in feeling between slendro manyuro and slendro songo. Also, the common claim that Thai classical music is 7edo [https://iftawm.org/journal/oldsite/articles/2015b/Garzoli_AAWM_Vol_4_2.pdf has been debunked by John Garzoli].

I have also been trying to correct misinformation propagated in the xen community about non-Western tunings; many claims about approximating EDOs/JI/temperaments range from questionable to completely wrong. For example, Javanese slendro is not 5edo. Many gamelan are closer to 5edo than a 12edo pentatonic scale, but the tones are still uneven on most gamelan, and players certainly don't think of the tones as even given the strong differences in feeling between slendro manyuro and slendro songo. Also, the common claim that Thai classical music is 7edo [https://iftawm.org/journal/oldsite/articles/2015b/Garzoli_AAWM_Vol_4_2.pdf has been debunked by John Garzoli].

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 I'm an avid player of central Javanese gamelan. While gamelan tuning is certainly a deep topic, I'm not as interested in that aspect of it compared to the melodies, the system of modes and elaborations, and the social/cultural/philosophical aspects of the music.
-I have also been trying to correct misinformation propagated in the xen community about non-Western tunings; many claims about approximating EDOs/JI/temperaments range from questionable to completely wrong. For example, Javanese slendro is not 5edo. It is closer to 5edo than a 12edo pentatonic scale, but the tones are still uneven on most gamelan, and players certainly don't think of the tones as even given the strong differences in feeling between slendro manyuro and slendro songo. Also, the common claim that Thai classical music is 7edo [https://iftawm.org/journal/oldsite/articles/2015b/Garzoli_AAWM_Vol_4_2.pdf has been debunked by John Garzoli].
+I have also been trying to correct misinformation propagated in the xen community about non-Western tunings; many claims about approximating EDOs/JI/temperaments range from questionable to completely wrong. For example, Javanese slendro is not 5edo. Many gamelan are closer to 5edo than a 12edo pentatonic scale, but the tones are still uneven on most gamelan, and players certainly don't think of the tones as even given the strong differences in feeling between slendro manyuro and slendro songo. Also, the common claim that Thai classical music is 7edo [https://iftawm.org/journal/oldsite/articles/2015b/Garzoli_AAWM_Vol_4_2.pdf has been debunked by John Garzoli].
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