The tetrahanson temperament is a nonoctave kleismic temperament, tempering out the kleisma in the 4.3.5 subgroup and repeating at the double octave 4/1. It is generated by 5/3 and, like in normal hanson temperament, 6 of them make a 4/3. Tetrahanson does not contain any 5-limit major or minor triads, but it does have different voicings of them (3:4:5 and 12:15:20), which, to a 12edo-accustomed listener, can make it sound like the root is the real root and the perfect fifth above it at the same time.

For technical information see Subgroup temperaments#Tetrahanson.

Interval chain

Generators Cents (CTE) Approximate ratios
-7 1019.413 9/5
-6 1902.354 3/1
-5 385.295 5/4
-4 1268.236 25/12
-3 2151.177 125/36
-2 634.118 36/25
-1 1517.059 12/5
0 0.000 1/1
1 882.941 5/3
2 1765.882 25/9
3 248.823 144/125
4 1131.764 48/25
5 2014.705 16/5
6 497.646 4/3
7 1380.587 20/9

Tetrahanson on tritave

In tritave-repeating tetrahanson (3.4.5 subgroup), 36/25 actually represents 1\3edt, which makes the 3rd-tritave period.

b39 & b15

This is restriction of catalan extension. This can maintain the structure of the 3rd-octave period in 3.4.5, 3.5.11, and 3.5.13. Well, 3.4.5 and 3.5.13, which do not include 7 nor 11 in their basis, should simply be called tetrahanson (and no-twos cata, respectively).

3.4.5 3.5.11 3.5.13
CWE 883.071 879.416 883.808
Badness (Dirichlet) 0.155 2.708 0.069
3.4.5.11 3.4.5.13 3.5.11.13
CWE 880.672 882.854 879.352
Badness (Dirichlet) 0.384 0.066 0.44
Interval chain
#
(mingen)
Period 0 Period 1 Period 2
Cents* Approximate ratios Cents* Approximate ratios Cents* Approximate ratios
-1 1656.6 13/5 388.6 5/4 1022.6 9/5
0 0.0 1/1 634.0 36/25, 13/9 1268.0 25/12, 27/13
1 245.3 125/108, 15/13 879.3 5/3 1513.3 12/5
2 490.7 4/3, 33/25 1124.7 48/25, 25/13 1758.7 25/9, 36/13, 11/4
3 736.0 20/13, 55/36 1370.0 20/9, 11/5 102.1 16/15, 55/52
4 981.4 16/9, 44/25 1615.4 64/25,33/13 347.4 100/81, 16/13, 11/9

* In 3.5.11.13-subgroup 13-throdd-limit minimax tuning

  • [1] – 15-note scale
Tuning spectrum
ET
generator
Eigenmonzo
(unchanged-interval)
Generator (¢) Comments
11/5 877.658
18\39edt 877.825
33/13 878.675
11/9 879.333 3.5.11.13-subgroup 13-throdd-limit minimax
43\93edt 879.399
44/15 879.798
25\54edt 880.534
5/4 881.656
36/13 881.691
32\69edt 882.066
16/13 882.349
4/3 883.007 3.4.5-subgroup 5-throdd-limit minimax
5/3 884.359
7\15edt 887.579