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:::::::::: The term "Alpharabian" comes from "Alpharabius"– another name for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Farabi Abu Nasr al-Farabi]– and was chosen due to the fact that 33/32, also known as the the "al-Farabi Quartertone", is the primary limma of the 11-limit, a fact which lends itself to the idea of 2.3.11 tuning being called "Alpharabian tuning" in the same way that 2.3 tuning is called "Pythagorean tuning". I imagine that the rest of what you've said about the wordplay is quite true, seeing as I didn't know the meaning of the name "al-Farabi" aside from its connection to the aforementioned person. It is specifically the name "Alpharabius" and the related adjective "Alpharabian" that bear the association with the letter name "Alpha". I'm sorry, I should have mentioned the remaining specifics, but I was struggling with the specifics as to how to express this complicated etymology. --[[User:Aura|Aura]] ([[User talk:Aura|talk]]) 15:42, 1 December 2020 (UTC) | :::::::::: The term "Alpharabian" comes from "Alpharabius"– another name for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Farabi Abu Nasr al-Farabi]– and was chosen due to the fact that 33/32, also known as the the "al-Farabi Quartertone", is the primary limma of the 11-limit, a fact which lends itself to the idea of 2.3.11 tuning being called "Alpharabian tuning" in the same way that 2.3 tuning is called "Pythagorean tuning". I imagine that the rest of what you've said about the wordplay is quite true, seeing as I didn't know the meaning of the name "al-Farabi" aside from its connection to the aforementioned person. It is specifically the name "Alpharabius" and the related adjective "Alpharabian" that bear the association with the letter name "Alpha". I'm sorry, I should have mentioned the remaining specifics, but I was struggling with the specifics as to how to express this complicated etymology. --[[User:Aura|Aura]] ([[User talk:Aura|talk]]) 15:42, 1 December 2020 (UTC) | ||
::::::::::: Got it. Thank you for another piece of information that makes the naming issue even more complicated. :-) — [[User:SAKryukov|SA]], ''Tuesday 2020 December 1, 16:38 UTC'' | |||
::: Oh, great! Huygens-Fokker Foundation's list of intervals you referenced in the first paragraph of this section. It can help me to explain to you what is that very characteristic of communication problems I can see in the musicians. In the list, you can see the set of rational-number intervals and some names. Hopefully, all rational numbers in the list are irreducible fractions. What information does this page carry? Next to nothing. The only possible use is this: when you already got some interval from some other source, say, from your own calculation, you can check up: is it one of the well-known intervals or not, and, if it is, what is its well-known name? Even this information has some uncertainty, because, strictly speaking, "well-known" is something uncertain, so the only definitive information you get is this: is my interval on the Huygens-Fokker Foundation's list? :-). And yes, this is exactly what you've checked in this case. You cannot learn anything about any of the concrete commas from this page. For the contrast example, look at any good Wikipedia page. Sometimes you can start from some reference and end up with the study of an entire field of science... — [[User:SAKryukov|SA]], ''Tuesday 2020 December 1, 02:06 UTC'' | ::: Oh, great! Huygens-Fokker Foundation's list of intervals you referenced in the first paragraph of this section. It can help me to explain to you what is that very characteristic of communication problems I can see in the musicians. In the list, you can see the set of rational-number intervals and some names. Hopefully, all rational numbers in the list are irreducible fractions. What information does this page carry? Next to nothing. The only possible use is this: when you already got some interval from some other source, say, from your own calculation, you can check up: is it one of the well-known intervals or not, and, if it is, what is its well-known name? Even this information has some uncertainty, because, strictly speaking, "well-known" is something uncertain, so the only definitive information you get is this: is my interval on the Huygens-Fokker Foundation's list? :-). And yes, this is exactly what you've checked in this case. You cannot learn anything about any of the concrete commas from this page. For the contrast example, look at any good Wikipedia page. Sometimes you can start from some reference and end up with the study of an entire field of science... — [[User:SAKryukov|SA]], ''Tuesday 2020 December 1, 02:06 UTC'' | ||