6:7:8

Revision as of 09:03, 17 December 2025 by TallKite (talk | contribs) (replaced 4:7:12 with 4:6:7. 7/6 is more consonant than 12/7.)

6:7:8 is a 7-limit triad consisting of the intervals 7/6 and 8/7 stacked on top of each other. This chord deviates from traditional harmony in that the intervals divide the perfect fourth rather than the perfect fifth. The 7/6 and 8/7 intervals contrast by 49/48, similarly to how 5/4 and 6/5 contrast by 25/24 in 4:5:6. By swapping the order of 7/6 and 8/7, we get the utonal inverse of 6:7:8, that being 1/(8:7:6) = 21:24:28. The 6:7:8 chord may be better voiced as 4:6:7 in order to place the root on the bottom. 4:6:7 is contained in 4:5:6:7, the harmonic seventh chord.

Chord information
Harmonics 6:7:8
Subharmonics 1/(28:24:21)
Intervals from root 1/17/64/3
Cents from root 267¢498¢
Step intervals 7/6, 8/7
Step cents 267¢, 231¢
Prime limit 7
Genus 37 (21)
Intervallic odd limit 7
Otonal odd limit 7
Utonal odd limit 21
Consistent edos (d ≥ 2) 5edo**, 10edo*, 22edo*, 26edo*, …