User:BudjarnLambeth/Some tunings for Japanese scales: Difference between revisions
Created page with "; In ''my personal subjective opinion'': The '''best-sounding''' tunings for most Japanese scales are: * Meantone temperament in 55edo * 2/11-comma meantone * Meantone temperament in 43edo * 1/5-comma meantone Other tunings that aren't quite as good as those, but still '''very good''', for most Japanese scales are: * Any meantone tuning with a fifth between 697{{c}} (5/22-comma) and 701{{c}} (..." |
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* Any meantone tuning with fifths flatter than 2/9-comma (e.g. [[31edo]], quarter-comma, [[50edo]], 1/3-comma) - these include some tritones which are a bit sharper than [[10/7]], and to my ears those just sound unbearably bitter | * Any meantone tuning with fifths flatter than 2/9-comma (e.g. [[31edo]], quarter-comma, [[50edo]], 1/3-comma) - these include some tritones which are a bit sharper than [[10/7]], and to my ears those just sound unbearably bitter | ||
* Any [[leapday]] tuning close to [[46edo]] - the 10/7 tritone gets too sharp which makes the whole scale too bitter, like in the flatter meantone tunings | * Any [[leapday]] tuning close to [[46edo]] - the 10/7 tritone gets too sharp which makes the whole scale too bitter, like in the flatter meantone tunings | ||
; For all these tunings, any note will work as the tonic but my favourite is D tuned to 140-150 Hz. | ; For all these tunings, any note will work as the tonic but my favourite is D tuned to 140-150 Hz. | ||
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== To-do == | |||
Tunings that I '''have yet to try properly''' and plan to try in future: | |||
* Over-3, -5, -7, -11, -13, -17, -19 & -23 primodality | |||
** Semiprime modes of the above | |||
* Compton in [[84edo]] & [[96edo]] | |||
* [[User:BudjarnLambeth/Substitute harmonic|Narrowed compton]] tunings | |||
* [[Augmented]] tunings | |||
* [[Diminished]] tunings | |||
* [[Pajara]] tunings | |||
* [[Diaschismic]] tunings | |||
{{Scale gallery}} | {{Scale gallery}} | ||
[[Category:5-tone scales]] | [[Category:5-tone scales]] | ||