Since 17 is a prime number, any interval can be repeatedly stacked to produce new intervals until all 17 tones are included. This page lists and visualizes the scales produced this way.
Diagram of mosses of 17edo
Single-period MOS scales
Generators 9\17 and 8\17
| Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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| ├────────┼───────┤
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1L 1s
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9, 8
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9:8
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| ├┼───────┼───────┤
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2L 1s
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8, 1
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8:1
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| ├┼┼──────┼┼──────┤
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2L 3s
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7, 1
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7:1
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| ├┼┼┼─────┼┼┼─────┤
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2L 5s (antidiatonic)
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6, 1
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6:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼────┼┼┼┼────┤
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2L 7s (balzano)
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5, 1
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5:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼───┼┼┼┼┼───┤
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2L 9s
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4, 1
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4:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼┼──┼┼┼┼┼┼──┤
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2L 11s
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3, 1
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3:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼─┼┼┼┼┼┼┼─┤
|
2L 13s
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2, 1
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2:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
|
17edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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Generators 10\17 and 7\17
| Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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| ├─────────┼──────┤
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1L 1s
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10, 7
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10:7
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| ├──┼──────┼──────┤
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2L 1s
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7, 3
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7:3
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| ├──┼──┼───┼──┼───┤
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2L 3s
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4, 3
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4:3
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| ├──┼──┼──┼┼──┼──┼┤
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5L 2s (diatonic)
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3, 1
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3:1
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| ├─┼┼─┼┼─┼┼┼─┼┼─┼┼┤
|
5L 7s
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2, 1
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2:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
|
17edo
|
1, 1
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1:1
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Generators 11\17 and 6\17
| Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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| ├──────────┼─────┤
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1L 1s
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11, 6
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11:6
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| ├────┼─────┼─────┤
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2L 1s
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6, 5
|
6:5
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| ├────┼────┼┼────┼┤
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3L 2s
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5, 1
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5:1
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| ├───┼┼───┼┼┼───┼┼┤
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3L 5s (checkertonic)
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4, 1
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4:1
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| ├──┼┼┼──┼┼┼┼──┼┼┼┤
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3L 8s
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3, 1
|
3:1
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| ├─┼┼┼┼─┼┼┼┼┼─┼┼┼┼┤
|
3L 11s
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2, 1
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2:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
|
17edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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Generators 12\17 and 5\17
| Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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| ├───────────┼────┤
|
1L 1s
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12, 5
|
12:5
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| ├──────┼────┼────┤
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1L 2s
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7, 5
|
7:5
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| ├─┼────┼────┼────┤
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3L 1s
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5, 2
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5:2
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| ├─┼─┼──┼─┼──┼─┼──┤
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3L 4s (mosh)
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3, 2
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3:2
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| ├─┼─┼─┼┼─┼─┼┼─┼─┼┤
|
7L 3s (dicoid)
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2, 1
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2:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
|
17edo
|
1, 1
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1:1
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Generators 13\17 and 4\17
| Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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| ├────────────┼───┤
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1L 1s
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13, 4
|
13:4
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| ├────────┼───┼───┤
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1L 2s
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9, 4
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9:4
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| ├────┼───┼───┼───┤
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1L 3s
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5, 4
|
5:4
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| ├┼───┼───┼───┼───┤
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4L 1s
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4, 1
|
4:1
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| ├┼┼──┼┼──┼┼──┼┼──┤
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4L 5s (gramitonic)
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3, 1
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3:1
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| ├┼┼┼─┼┼┼─┼┼┼─┼┼┼─┤
|
4L 9s
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2, 1
|
2:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
|
17edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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Generators 14\17 and 3\17
| Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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| ├─────────────┼──┤
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1L 1s
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14, 3
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14:3
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| ├──────────┼──┼──┤
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1L 2s
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11, 3
|
11:3
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| ├───────┼──┼──┼──┤
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1L 3s
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8, 3
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8:3
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| ├────┼──┼──┼──┼──┤
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1L 4s
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5, 3
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5:3
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| ├─┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┤
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5L 1s (machinoid)
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3, 2
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3:2
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| ├─┼─┼┼─┼┼─┼┼─┼┼─┼┤
|
6L 5s
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2, 1
|
2:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
|
17edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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Generators 15\17 and 2\17
| Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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| ├──────────────┼─┤
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1L 1s
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15, 2
|
15:2
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| ├────────────┼─┼─┤
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1L 2s
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13, 2
|
13:2
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| ├──────────┼─┼─┼─┤
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1L 3s
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11, 2
|
11:2
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| ├────────┼─┼─┼─┼─┤
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1L 4s
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9, 2
|
9:2
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| ├──────┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┤
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1L 5s (antimachinoid)
|
7, 2
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7:2
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| ├────┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┤
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1L 6s (onyx)
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5, 2
|
5:2
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| ├──┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┤
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1L 7s (antipine)
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3, 2
|
3:2
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| ├┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┤
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8L 1s (subneutralic)
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2, 1
|
2:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
|
17edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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Generators 16\17 and 1\17
| Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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| ├───────────────┼┤
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1L 1s
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16, 1
|
16:1
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| ├──────────────┼┼┤
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1L 2s
|
15, 1
|
15:1
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| ├─────────────┼┼┼┤
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1L 3s
|
14, 1
|
14:1
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| ├────────────┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 4s
|
13, 1
|
13:1
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| ├───────────┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 5s (antimachinoid)
|
12, 1
|
12:1
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| ├──────────┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 6s (onyx)
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11, 1
|
11:1
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| ├─────────┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 7s (antipine)
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10, 1
|
10:1
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| ├────────┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 8s (antisubneutralic)
|
9, 1
|
9:1
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| ├───────┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 9s (antisinatonic)
|
8, 1
|
8:1
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| ├──────┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 10s
|
7, 1
|
7:1
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| ├─────┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 11s
|
6, 1
|
6:1
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| ├────┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 12s
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5, 1
|
5:1
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| ├───┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 13s
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4, 1
|
4:1
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| ├──┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 14s
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3, 1
|
3:1
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| ├─┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
|
1L 15s
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2, 1
|
2:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
|
17edo
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1, 1
|
1:1
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