Talk:Dyadic chord

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Query on mention of 36/35 -- is 36/25 meant?

There are references to 36/35 and 10/7 differing by 126/125, the starling comma. Could this mean 36/25, or (6/5)^2? Mschulter1325 07:31, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, 36/25 and 10/7 differ by 126/125. I just checked in Wolfram Alpha. --Aura (talk) 07:42, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Move to "dyadically consonant chord"

To me, "dyadic chord" most intuitively means "chord that is a dyad".

On anomalous saturated suspensions

I can't keep a straight face whilst looking at this section, I'm too childish I may admit, but it's kind of an unfortunate acronym. I propose it to be renamed to something like AnSaS or related.

I don't share that feeling but maybe that's becuz English isn't my first language. —FloraC (talk) 06:40, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

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Chord classification

Some temperaments temper out commas that lead chords which otherwise come in otonal-utonal pairs to become neutralized, such as 7:8:9 and 9:10:11 in superpyth. In Chords of huygens, the neutralized 8:9:10 and 11:14:18 chords are both classified as otonal, while in Chords of mohajira, the neutralized 10:11:12 chord is classified as utonal. I believe this is based on the transversal, as the 8:9:10, 11:14:18, and 10:11:12 chords are generated as 1-9/8-5/4, 1-14/9-11/9, and 1-20/11-5/3 respectively. However, classifying these chords as otonal or utonal is misleading, so there should be a convention; perhaps ambitonal, or another term entirely.--Overthink (talk) 23:17, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

These are actually plurichords that change their o/u-tonality on different interpretations. I would suggest marking them as both otonal/utonal, which is a meaningful distinction to make from ambitonal. Perhaps it's also good to explicitly mark their plurichord nature and the associated temperaments, if we can find a way to do so. —FloraC (talk) 06:40, 14 December 2025 (UTC)