Mavila: Difference between revisions

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== Tunings ==

The fifths of mavila are very flat – 16edo (675.0 cents) and 23edo (678.3 cents) are typical tunings, and the optimal 5-limit tuning is 679.8 cents. As a result, mavila is best played with specialized timbres: either timbres with high rolloff (~~such as~~ sine waves, marimba, and ocarina) or high inharmonicity (detuned partials, such as Gamelans, bells, or Timbila instruments). [[Stretched and compressed tuning|Octave stretching]] can also help improve the intonation of various intervals.

The fifths of mavila are very flat – 16edo (675.0 cents) and 23edo (678.3 cents) are typical tunings, and the optimal 5-limit tuning is 679.8 cents. As a result, mavila is best played with specialized timbres: either timbres with high rolloff (e.g. sine waves, marimba, and ocarina) or high inharmonicity (detuned partials, such as Gamelans, bells, or Timbila instruments). [[Stretched and compressed tuning|Octave stretching]] can also help improve the intonation of various intervals, especially on more inharmonic timbres.

As with meantone, mavila has its own tuning spectrum. 7edo, with its 685.714 cent fifth, is often thought of as an informal dividing line between meantone and mavila, in which case it forms the sharpmost endpoint on the mavila tuning spectrum and the flatmost endpoint of the meantone spectrum: if the fifth is flatter than this, it will generate anti-diatonic scales, and if it is sharper than this, it will generate diatonic scales. The fifth of 9edo is also often thought of as the other (flatmost) endpoint on the mavila spectrum.

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 == Tunings ==
-The fifths of mavila are very flat – 16edo (675.0 cents) and 23edo (678.3 cents) are typical tunings, and the optimal 5-limit tuning is 679.8 cents. As a result, mavila is best played with specialized timbres: either timbres with high rolloff (such as sine waves, marimba, and ocarina) or high inharmonicity (detuned partials, such as Gamelans, bells, or Timbila instruments). [[Stretched and compressed tuning|Octave stretching]] can also help improve the intonation of various intervals.
+The fifths of mavila are very flat – 16edo (675.0 cents) and 23edo (678.3 cents) are typical tunings, and the optimal 5-limit tuning is 679.8 cents. As a result, mavila is best played with specialized timbres: either timbres with high rolloff (e.g. sine waves, marimba, and ocarina) or high inharmonicity (detuned partials, such as Gamelans, bells, or Timbila instruments). [[Stretched and compressed tuning|Octave stretching]] can also help improve the intonation of various intervals, especially on more inharmonic timbres.
 As with meantone, mavila has its own tuning spectrum. 7edo, with its 685.714 cent fifth, is often thought of as an informal dividing line between meantone and mavila, in which case it forms the sharpmost endpoint on the mavila tuning spectrum and the flatmost endpoint of the meantone spectrum: if the fifth is flatter than this, it will generate anti-diatonic scales, and if it is sharper than this, it will generate diatonic scales. The fifth of 9edo is also often thought of as the other (flatmost) endpoint on the mavila spectrum.