Temperament(s) for Diatonicized Chromaticism?: Starting to use the tables of odd harmonics
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:::::::::::: In partial contrast, with 17L 2s, the harmonic/subharmonics of the generator have unstable mapping (because no simple ratio with a reasonable sized numerator and denominator fits into this zone), but the 3rd harmonic is nearly rock-solid (and 112b is a respectable if overly-complex quarter-comma meantone approximation), although presumably its mapping would break if I put in the rest of the right-most column of the MOS spectrum table.  And there the 5th harmonic seems very much usable in the soft end of the scale tuning spectrum as long as the EDO sizes don't get too large (and even then, sometimes it is still okay), which looks to me like enabling a 2.3.5.23 meantone extension; it goes all over the place in the hard end, but there the 25th harmonic shines and is rock-solid as long as you don't go harder than 36edo (basic), and the 13th harmonic just barely misses being rock-solid in this zone (just barely breaks on 125edo, for which 125f would be not bad).  Although those harmonics would also appear less solid if I included the rest of the MOS tuning spectrum.
:::::::::::: In partial contrast, with 17L 2s, the harmonic/subharmonics of the generator have unstable mapping (because no simple ratio with a reasonable sized numerator and denominator fits into this zone), but the 3rd harmonic is nearly rock-solid (and 112b is a respectable if overly-complex quarter-comma meantone approximation), although presumably its mapping would break if I put in the rest of the right-most column of the MOS spectrum table.  And there the 5th harmonic seems very much usable in the soft end of the scale tuning spectrum as long as the EDO sizes don't get too large (and even then, sometimes it is still okay), which looks to me like enabling a 2.3.5.23 meantone extension; it goes all over the place in the hard end, but there the 25th harmonic shines and is rock-solid as long as you don't go harder than 36edo (basic), and the 13th harmonic just barely misses being rock-solid in this zone (just barely breaks on 125edo, for which 125f would be not bad).  Although those harmonics would also appear less solid if I included the rest of the MOS tuning spectrum.
:::::::::::: [[User:Lucius Chiaraviglio|Lucius Chiaraviglio]] ([[User talk:Lucius Chiaraviglio|talk]]) 07:28, 10 April 2025 (UTC)
:::::::::::: [[User:Lucius Chiaraviglio|Lucius Chiaraviglio]] ([[User talk:Lucius Chiaraviglio|talk]]) 07:28, 10 April 2025 (UTC)
In reply to your previous comment, I should mention that I'd like to know where ~3/2 is relative to the 11L 2s of 159edo. I imagine it's rather far along the generator sequence.  At the same time, I'm wondering what sorts of chords you can actually get from 11L 2s in 159edo. --[[User:Aura|Aura]] ([[User talk:Aura|talk]]) 16:53, 10 April 2025 (UTC)