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Hi Kite. Per your request I'm continuing discussion with you on your user page where you are more likely to see it sooner. This is a continuation of the discussion started here: [[Talk:Color notation/Temperament Names]]

I'm glad you agree about torsion. I like the way you explained it, pointing to the name of RTT itself. As a nit-pick, though, I can't agree with the statement that "you can't hear periodicity blocks". That wasn't what I was trying to say. In fact, I was trying to say something like the opposite. My point was that using e.g. {{vector|-8 8 -2}} instead of {{vector|-4 4 -1}} has an audible effect on periodicity blocks but not on temperaments. For a periodicity block, it causes the size of the scale to double, but half of the notes are a redundant copy of the other half, simply offset. Because this is a real audible effect, and I understand there are maybe even some uses for it or cases where it's desirable, it has a name, "torsion". But for a temperament, though, where the comma is by definition tempered out, there is no audible effect, and thus using {{vector|-8 8 -2}} instead of {{vector|-4 4 -1}} is meaningless. It's just pathological enfactoring that is removed when the comma-basis is put into canonical form.

I'm glad you agree about torsion. I like the way you explained it, pointing to the name of RTT itself. As a nit-pick, though, I can't agree with the statement that "you can't hear periodicity blocks". That wasn't what I was trying to say. In fact, I was trying to say something like the opposite. My point was that using e.g. {{vector|-8 8 -2}} instead of {{vector|-4 4 -1}} has an audible effect on periodicity blocks but not on temperaments. For a periodicity block, it causes the size of the scale to double, but half of the notes are a redundant copy of the other half, simply offset. Because this is a real audible effect, and I understand there are maybe even some uses for it or cases where it's desirable, it has a name, "torsion". But for a temperament, though, where the comma is by definition tempered out, there is no audible effect, and thus using {{vector|-8 8 -2}} instead of {{vector|-4 4 -1}} is meaningless. It's just pathological enfactoring that is removed when the comma basis is put into canonical form.

I'm glad you agree about contorsion too. I'm not sure we do, though, because your statement about 12- and 24- ET is not how I would describe it. I would say something more like this: "Calling {{map|24 38 56}} a 'temperament' is misleading because everything it does as a temperament is already done by the simpler {{map|12 19 28}}. In other words, all of its notes are real and audible, but half of them are not used for tempering, or we could say that it is 2-enfactored. Therefore it should not be listed as a strict 'temperament'; perhaps we could call it a 'temperoid' or something like that instead." Does that check out with you?

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 Hi Kite. Per your request I'm continuing discussion with you on your user page where you are more likely to see it sooner. This is a continuation of the discussion started here: [[Talk:Color notation/Temperament Names]]
-I'm glad you agree about torsion. I like the way you explained it, pointing to the name of RTT itself. As a nit-pick, though, I can't agree with the statement that "you can't hear periodicity blocks". That wasn't what I was trying to say. In fact, I was trying to say something like the opposite. My point was that using e.g. {{vector|-8 8 -2}} instead of {{vector|-4 4 -1}} has an audible effect on periodicity blocks but not on temperaments. For a periodicity block, it causes the size of the scale to double, but half of the notes are a redundant copy of the other half, simply offset. Because this is a real audible effect, and I understand there are maybe even some uses for it or cases where it's desirable, it has a name, "torsion". But for a temperament, though, where the comma is by definition tempered out, there is no audible effect, and thus using {{vector|-8 8 -2}} instead of {{vector|-4 4 -1}} is meaningless. It's just pathological enfactoring that is removed when the comma-basis is put into canonical form.
+I'm glad you agree about torsion. I like the way you explained it, pointing to the name of RTT itself. As a nit-pick, though, I can't agree with the statement that "you can't hear periodicity blocks". That wasn't what I was trying to say. In fact, I was trying to say something like the opposite. My point was that using e.g. {{vector|-8 8 -2}} instead of {{vector|-4 4 -1}} has an audible effect on periodicity blocks but not on temperaments. For a periodicity block, it causes the size of the scale to double, but half of the notes are a redundant copy of the other half, simply offset. Because this is a real audible effect, and I understand there are maybe even some uses for it or cases where it's desirable, it has a name, "torsion". But for a temperament, though, where the comma is by definition tempered out, there is no audible effect, and thus using {{vector|-8 8 -2}} instead of {{vector|-4 4 -1}} is meaningless. It's just pathological enfactoring that is removed when the comma basis is put into canonical form.
 I'm glad you agree about contorsion too. I'm not sure we do, though, because your statement about 12- and 24- ET is not how I would describe it. I would say something more like this: "Calling {{map|24 38 56}} a 'temperament' is misleading because everything it does as a temperament is already done by the simpler {{map|12 19 28}}. In other words, all of its notes are real and audible, but half of them are not used for tempering, or we could say that it is 2-enfactored. Therefore it should not be listed as a strict 'temperament'; perhaps we could call it a 'temperoid' or something like that instead." Does that check out with you?