Talk:Neji

The Neji lemma

The Neji lemma seems to have the tendency to expand. Maybe a disambiguation would fit better than a plain redirect, because of the Well temperaments which also aim to equalize their steps. --Xenwolf (talk) 07:51, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

My current recommendation is that we create a page for "quasi-equal rational tunings" and have NEJI redirect there instead, since NEJI is not synonymous with overtone scales, but actually synonymous with the concept which as far as I can tell was first described by George Secor here: http://www.anaphoria.com/secor-blarney.html --Cmloegcmluin (talk) 20:03, 15 March 2021

NEJI stands for…

I still don’t feel comfortable not mentioning the term “near-equal just intonation” even once on the whole page. That was the term Zhea originally proposed and still uses, and many other people use it too, it needs to be on here.

Maybe we could change

A neji or NEJI (pronounced /nɛdʒi/ "nedgy"; for "near-equivalent just intonation")

to

A neji or NEJI (pronounced /nɛdʒi/ "nedgy"; for "near-equivalent just intonation" or "near-equal just intonation")

and keep the rest of the page the same?

To be honest, I had completely forgotten that the community had discussed the "near-equivalent" version, as I more often think about it as "near-equal" anyway. We could mention "near-equal" in the History section, where it is explained that Zhea coined "neji". That said, since Zhea's meaning might still be in use, I would also include it at the top. For that matter, the page could do a better job at distinguishing the kind of nejis that qualify as near-equal and those that qualify as near-equivalent, but I'll leave it to others if they're interested. --Fredg999 (talk) 15:37, 14 September 2024 (UTC)