Gallery of 12-tone tempered scales

Map your chosen scale to a standard Halberstadt keyboard and you are on your way!

MOS scales

• Meantone(12) because tradition must be respected
• ratwolf Eleven fifths of (418/5)^(1/11) and one 20/13 wolf
• mavila-eb Mavila[12] in f^4-10f+10 equal beating tuning and meantone order

Hopper by Singer-Medora-White-Smith; At The Hop in f^4-10f+10 mavila

• pajara12 Pajara[12] in POTE tuning
• 12-22a Superpyth[12] in 22edo: Paul Erlich, TL 4-4-2000
• 12-27 Augene[12] in 27edo: Herman Miller's Galticeran scale
• diminished12 Diminished[12] in 44edo
• flattone12 Flattone[12] in 13-limit POTE tuning
• blackbirds12 Blackbirds[12] in 82\180 tuning

Marvel tempered scales

• marveldene the all-weather marvel-tempered duodene
• prismarv marvel tempering of prism (and diadie1)
• centmarv marvel tempered centaur (and meandin)
• hahn12marv marvel tempered hahn12
• hexymarv marvel tempered hexy
• pump12_1

Pump1 by Chris Vaisvil

• pump12_2
• linemarv12
• prisun unimarv tempered pris
• highschool1uni unimarv tempered first highschool scale
• highschool2uni unimarv tempered second highschool scale
• dekany-cs-marv unimarv tempered dekany-cs
• smithgw_tetra
• sixtetwoo

Music in sixtetwoo

Other temperament tempered scales

• 12-Adams 12 out of 72-TET scale by Prent Rodgers

Pomp & Parade #19, by Prent Rodgers

Shews #15, by Prent Rodgers

• 12highschool1-rodan 12highschool1 tempered in 13-limit POTE-tuned rodan
• 12highschool2-miracle 12highschool2 tempered in 11-limit POTE-tuned miracle
• breedball3-miracle breedball3 tempered in POTE-tuned 11-limit miracle
• hexy-miraculous hexy in 13-limit POTE-tuned miraculous
• biggulp-bunya biggulp tempered in POTE-tuned 13-limit bunya
• hexanys-valentino hexanys tempered in 13-limit POTE-tuned valentino
• blueji-cataclysmic blueji tempered in 13-limit POTE-tuned cataclysmic
• yekta-cataclysmic yekta tempered in 13-limit POTE-tuned cataclysmic
• stelhex-catakleismic stelhex tempered in 13-limit POTE-tuned catakleismic
• glumma-hendec glumma tempered in 13-limit POTE-tuned hendec
• simp12hitch simp12 tempered in hitchcock, 99edo tuning
• malco malcolm tempered in malcolm temperament, 94et tuning
• bihexanymyna myna tempered bihexany
• duohexmean meantone tempered duohex
• novadene starling tempered duodene_skew
• parapyth12 A triple Fokker block of the 2.3.7.11.13 temperament called "parapyth"

Organ, by Chris Vaisvil

• mixed-quarters Chris Vaisvil's 24edo scale

The Bitter Bride

Dancing in Plasticine Grass

by Chris Vaisvil

• plum 46 equal tempered 686/675 pump scale
• elevenplus 11edo plus the 22edo fifth
• freiseed Jake Freivald's starling scale

A Seed Planted play by Jake Freivald

Hobbits

• archytas12, archytas12synch

12 archytas hobbits with ale by Chris Vaisvil

Portrait of a Tragedy (Death of a Son) - Archytas12 sync Study 3 by Joel Taylor

• ares12
• jubilismic12
• minerva12
• nakika12
• thrush12
• unimarv12
• marvel12
• starling12

Tempered subgroup scales

• omahat 243/242 tempered 2.3.11 subgroup scale
• unimajorpenta 896/891 tempered 2.3.11/7 subgroup scale
• cantonpenta 352/351 and 364/363 tempered 2.3.11/7.13/7 subgroup scale
  • Jake Freivald "Cantonese Bagatelle" play

Lesfip scales and other optimizations

• val-werck
• millerop
• blue
  • Chris Vaisvil "Perseverance"
• raven John O'Sullivan's raven scale
  • Raven Explore by Chris Vaisvil
• raven2 John O'Sullivan's raven2 scale
  • Psalm 4 in Dorian mode of Raven 2 Tuning by Chris Vaisvil

Linear recurrence scales, rational intonation, etc

• tapek-ribbon Eq-diff ribbon extension of Superpyth, made of two Tapek sequences
• soria 12 from a 17-notes cycle, equal-beating extended fifths (705.57 c.) sequence
• mounos Mounos extended fifths -c sequence, quasi-septimal minor diatonic scale
• ifbis Ifbis -c 12 tones sequence (not traditional)
• sireine_f Sequence of 11 Sireine low meantone fifths (exactly 691.2348426 c.) from F
• sumer Neutral diatonic soft Rast scale with Ishku -c variations
• rast_matrix Neutral third sequence, Rast on white keys and other maqamat
• baran Shaahin Mohajeri's Baran scale
• ligon Jacky Ligon's strictly proper all-prime scale

MODMOS

• igliashon Meantone MODMOS created for Igliashon Jones in 74et
• 12-22h Pajara MODMOS: Hexachordal 12-tone scale in 22-tET
• keenan Fokker/Keenan meantone MODMOS in 31et
• meteoroid Andrew Heathwaite's meantone MODMOS, 31et tuning

Andrew’s 12 of 31 for Flute and Harp by Chris Vaisvil

• wilson_gh50 Golden Horagram nr.50: 7phi+2 / 17phi+5

Circulating fifths

• werck3 Andreas Werckmeister's temperament III
• vallotti Vallotti & Young scale (Vallotti version)
• kirnberger Kirnberger III, letter to Forkel 1779
• young2 Thomas Young well temperament no.2 (1799)
• courette2 Michel Corrette, modified meantone temperament (1753)
• couperin Couperin modified meantone
• qcmte84a Margo Schulter temperament extraordinaire
• rainbow rainbow/meanquarw3 modified 1/4-comma meantone
• grail Holy Grail circulating scale
• bifrost Six meantone fifths, four pure fifths
• cauldron Circulating scale with two pure 9/7 thirds

For the Unknown Children of Tuam, Galway by Chris Vaisvil

• secor_wt10 Secor's 12-tone well-temperament, proportional beating
• ozancirc Ozan Yarman's 159-equal circulating scale
• johnson-secor_rwt Aaron Krister Johnson and George Secor's equal-beating rational well temperament
• johnson-temp Aaron Krister Johnson, circulating temperament based on 5/4, 24/19, 19/15 backbone