Submerged
Submerged (16 & 29) is a temperament generated by a ~373¢ 5/4, tempering out the submerged comma in the 5-limit. Its major third is slightly flat of magic's major third, which itself is slightly flat of a just 5/4, making submerged's generator arguably a submajor third. The comma's monzo is [-27 1 11⟩, which implies that 11 5/4s stack to make a 4/3, thus making its ploidacot omega-hendecacot.
For limits higher than 5, 9 5/4s stack to reach 7/4, and it tempers out 525/512 and 3125/3087 in the 7-limit, and in the 11-limit, 441/440 and 121/120. In the 13-limit, in addition to tempering out 105/104, if we look at a submerged third, it sits in between 16/13 and 5/4, and a very logical thing to do is to temper out the difference between these two intervals, thus also tempering out 65/64.
Submerged was named by Fitzgerald Lee as a play on the term "submajor third".
Interval Chain
In the following table, odd harmonics 1-15 and their inverses are in bold.
| # | Cents* | Approximate ratios |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0.0 | 1/1 |
| 1 | 372.6 | 5/4, 16/13 |
| 2 | 745.2 | 32/21, 20/13 |
| 3 | 1117.8 | 40/21 |
| 4 | 290.4 | 13/11 |
| 5 | 663.0 | 16/11, 22/15 |
| 6 | 1035.6 | 20/11, 11/6 |
| 7 | 208.2 | 25/22, 55/48 |
| 8 | 580.8 | 7/5, 55/39 |
| 9 | 953.4 | 26/15, 7/4 |
| 10 | 126.0 | 16/15, 14/13, 13/12 |
| 11 | 498.6 | 4/3 |
| 12 | 871.2 | 64/39, 5/3 |
| 13 | 43.8 | 40/39, 25/24 |
* In 5-limit CTE tuning
Scales
Submerged generates the MOSes 3L 4s, 3L 7s, 3L 10s and 13L 3s.
Tunings
Tuning Spectrum
| Edo generator |
Unchanged interval (eigenmonzo) |
Generator (¢) | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4\13 | 369.231 | Major thirds slightly flatter than this fall under 13&23 | |
| 75/64 | 369.491 | 1/9-comma | |
| 15/8 | 371.173 | 1/10-comma | |
| 8\29 | 372.414 | ||
| 3/2 | 372.550 | 1/11-comma | |
| 14\45 | 373.333 | ||
| 5/3 | 373.697 | 1/12-comma | |
| 25/24 | 374.667 | 1/13-comma | |
| 5\16 | 375.000 | Major thirds slightly sharper than this fall under magic |