Talk:Frequency temperament

Suggestion to withdraw to user page

I suggest that since this way of using "arithmetic" is contentious, this page (along with Arithmetic MOS scale) should be withdrawn from the main wiki and changed to user pages. See ADO#History for more information. --Cmloegcmluin (talk) 18:35, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

I do not believe we should move the ADO article and related articles to the usespace solely on the basis of terminology. If you are suggesting that the "arithmetic" and "inverse-arithmetic" names should be dropped due to being controversial, it is sufficient to move "ADO" to "ODO" or whatever other alternative name is preferred, "arithmetic interval chain" to "otonal interval chain", "IDO" to "UDO", and so on. CompactStar (talk) 02:08, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

That's a fair point. To me, the comparison to temperaments seems tenuous here; this has nothing to do with commas and mappings, the linear algebra foundations of regular temperaments. It seems only to do with generators and possibly periods, which are another theoretical component that appears in RTT. I understand that the page was already updated somewhat to improve upon this issue. A single "arithmetic interval chain", i.e. with a single generator, to me seems identical to an AFS (arithmetic frequency sequence), and any ideas you feel are present on this new page that you feel are missing from that page should be merged in. Otherwise, if your original idea is intended to be extending this idea to multiple generators, then it seems less like a single chain and more like a "lattice" or something like that. And as for "arithmetic MOS", I believe on the discussion page for that, I suggested "frequency MOS" as a more appropriate name. --Cmloegcmluin (talk) 23:55, 31 March 2023 (UTC)