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== Temperaments == | == Temperaments == | ||
Tempering out this comma alone in the 7-limit results in the rank-3 | Tempering out this comma alone in the 7-limit results in the rank-3 [[linus]] temperament. Edos not divisible by 10 cannot temper it out. For technical details see [[10th-octave temperaments #Linus (rank-3)]]. | ||
== Etymology == | |||
The name ''linus'' was given by [[Gene Ward Smith]] in 2011, referring to the fact that it is a "line comma" since the simplest comma pump will simply march along a line of the tetrad lattice<ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning/topicId_99424.html Yahoo! Tuning Group | ''Line commas'']</ref><ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning/topicId_99457.html Yahoo! Tuning Group | ''Decoid and linus'']</ref>. | |||
A 2016 article on this wiki by [[Mason Green]], not aware of this comma already having been named, dubbed it the ''higherlovesma'', and the corresponding rank-3 temperament ''winwood''. | |||
== Notes == | |||
[[Category:Linus]] | [[Category:Linus]] | ||