7L 3s (4/1-equivalent)
7L 3s<4/1> (sometimes called diaquadic) refers to a non-octave MOS scale family with a period of a 4/1 and which has 7 large and 3 small steps. These scales are in some ways a double octave clone of diatonic scales because they are generated from perfect fifths and have the 7edo/7ed4 686-cent flat fifth and 5edo/10ed4's 720-cent sharp fifth at the ends of the tuning spectrum. However, ~3/2 is now the chroma-negative rather than chroma-positive generator, equalized and collapsed tunings are now swapped (equalized is 720-cent fifth and collapsed is 686-cent fifth), and the basic tuning is now the 705-cent gentle fifth from 17edo/17ed4 instead of 12edo's fifth. Diaquadic scales are also more widely spaced than diatonic scales, closer melodically to an octave-period pentatonic scale.
| ↖ 6L 2s⟨4/1⟩ | ↑ 7L 2s⟨4/1⟩ | 8L 2s⟨4/1⟩ ↗ |
| ← 6L 3s⟨4/1⟩ | 7L 3s (4/1-equivalent) | 8L 3s⟨4/1⟩ → |
| ↙ 6L 4s⟨4/1⟩ | ↓ 7L 4s⟨4/1⟩ | 8L 4s⟨4/1⟩ ↘ |
sLLsLLsLLL
Modes
The darker modes contain both major triads and augmented triads on the root, and the brighter modes contain both minor and diminished triads on the root.
- LLLsLLsLLs 9|0
- LLsLLLsLLs 8|1
- LLsLLsLLLs 7|2
- LLsLLsLLsL 6|3
- LsLLLsLLsL 5|4
- LsLLsLLLsL 4|5
- LsLLsLLsLL 3|6
- sLLLsLLsLL 2|7
- sLLsLLLsLL 1|8
- sLLsLLsLLL 0|9
Temperaments
There are two major rank-2 temperament interpretations of diaquadic, corresponding to double octave clones of meantone and archy.
Meanquad
Main article: Meanquad
- Subgroup: 4.5.6
- Comma list: 81/80
- Vals: 7, 31, 38, 24, 17, 10, 69, 45, 55, 11[-5], 52, 41, 13[+5], 27[+5]
- CTE tuning: ~3/2 = 697.214
Tetrominant
- Subgroup: 4.5.6.7
- Comma list: 36/35, 64/63
- Vals: 7, 17, 24, 10, 31, 41, 27[+5], 38[+7], 55[+7], 58[+5, +7], 65[+5, +7], 44[+5], 75[+5, +7]
- CTE tuning: ~3/2 = 699.622
Quarchy
- Subgroup: 4.6.7
- Comma list: 64/63
- Vals: 10, 17, 7, 27, 37, 44, 13, 24, 47, 11[+7], 23, 57, 16, 41
- CTE tuning: ~3/2 = 709.595