User:Squib/List of tunings
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This page is a catalog of tunings according to my in-progress system of music theory and describing tunings.
| Colors | Diagram | Ploidacot name | Associated temperaments | notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haploid monocot | pythagorean | note about chain-of-fifths temperaments such as meantone | ||||
| 2 | dicot | neutral, hemififths | strong 2.3.11 | ||||
| 2 | alpha-dicot | semaphore, monzismic | 3.5 fourths ≈ 11/4 | ||||
| 2 | diploid | diaschismic | average of meantone and schismic 5/4 | ||||
| 3 | tricot | slendric | strong 2.3.7 | ||||
| 3 | alpha-tricot | 2197/2187 (subset of kleismic) | strong 2.3.25.13 (splits 9/8 into 24:25:26:27) | ||||
| 3 | beta-tricot | porcupine, 4000/3993 | good 11/10 but not 5 or 11 | ||||
| 3 | triploid | augmented | 12edo major third | ||||
| 4 | tetracot | tetracot | |||||
| 4 | alpha-tetracot | buzzard | |||||
| 4 | beta-tetracot | 99/98 243/242 | 2.3.7.11 | ||||
| 4 | gamma-tetracot | has a major third as flat as 12edo's is sharp | |||||
| 4 | diploid dicot | hemipyth | combination of all 2-color tunings | ||||
| 4 | diploid alpha-dicot | shrutar | |||||
| 4 | tetraploid | diminished | 12edo minor third | ||||
| 5 | pentacot | 4.8 fifths ≈ 7/1 (0.5¢ error) | |||||
| 5 | alpha-pentacot | magic | |||||
| 5 | beta-pentacot | ||||||
| 5 | gamma-pentacot | amity | very accurate 2.3.5.7 but the 5 and 7 are awkward in opposite directions | ||||
| 5 | delta-pentacot | ||||||
| 5 | pentaploid | ||||||
| 6 | hexacot | ||||||
| 6 | alpha-hexacot | kleismic | |||||
| 6 | beta-hexacot | ||||||
| 6 | gamma-hexacot | ||||||
| 6 | delta-hexacot | ||||||
| 6 | epsilon-hexacot | ||||||
| 6 | diploid tricot | ||||||
| 6 | diploid alpha-tricot | ||||||
| 6 | diploid beta-tricot | ||||||
| 6 | triploid dicot | ||||||
| 6 | triploid alpha-tricot | ||||||
| 6 | hexaploid | ||||||
| 7 | alpha-heptacot | orwell | |||||
| 9 | wau-enneacot | superkleismic | 15 | something-15cot | luna |