Talk:Chords of superpyth
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For the chord lists I used This generator on Scratch as well as A tool to convert spaces into newlines because copy-pasting long lists is awkward.--Overthink (talk) 04:03, 8 November 2025 (UTC)
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) 21:37, 13 December 2025 (UTC)
- I believe it would be better to discuss this on Talk:Dyadic chord.--Overthink (talk) 23:17, 13 December 2025 (UTC)
Extra column, what to include
Before we finish and move this page to the main namespace I wanna discuss what more to include. So I reviewed some of the existing pages. They are a mess! So as we're creating this new page, I'd like to take this opportunity for a fresh start without all the burdens from the old pages.
What I absolutely don't want is listing the rotations. Since now we have articles for individual chords it's prolly much better to link to them instead. Another thing I very much dislike is Kite's chord symbols; we should perhaps include common names instead, e.g. 1–5/4–3/2 is the just major triad. I also don't want complexity or odd limits. In particular, odd limits would only be 5, 7, 9, or 11; these aren't very informative. So, my suggestion is a single comment column where we list the ratios (in colon form) with links as well as common names when applicable. This will also allow us to mark out the plurichords.