Talk:Decaononic

Not a temperament and issues with the orgin section

It's confusing to describe the concept as a temperament. It seems more like a set of tunings, but tbh I doubt the integrity of this concept as is currently documented. A tone can be 9/8, and it can be 10/9. If decaononic entails that 10/9 is the tone, that makes it a interval naming system since it names the intervals. Otherwise, if decaononic entails that 10/9 is emphasised by some means, it's not clear what counts and what doesn't – even qualitative measurements are missing.

"In most musical theory practices, even the most ardent microtonal ones… " This paragraph is quite inaccurate. Tuning-wise, quarter-comma meantone, for example, tunes the tone to exactly halfway between 9/8 and 10/9, and a fifth flatter that tunes the tone closer to 10/9 than 9/8. Temperament-wise, the tone is used as both 10/9 and 9/8, and there is not a discrimination. One of the more popular temperaments, porcupine, uses 10/9 as a generator. So I think some researches, such as asking any JI user if they use 10/9 as an interval of its own, would be helpful to get an accurate impression of the situation.

I'm tempted to also rename pages of all the n/d equal temperaments to n/d equal-step tunings, since that's what all the "equal temperament" pages are about, but it's another topic. FloraC (talk) 22:44, 23 November 2021 (UTC)