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Pajara
There are two different mappings of the 11-limit. One is just called pajara and is slightly more complex but suffers almost no loss of accuracy compared to the 7-limit. It is best tuned flat of 22edo. The other, called pajarous to avoid confusion, maps the 11th harmonic slightly simpler, but 22edo is the only 11-odd-limit diamond monotone tuning, where primes 3 and 5 are less accurate than in optimal tunings of canonical 11-limit pajara.
In the following tables, odd harmonics 1–11 and their inverses are in bold.
| # | Period 0 | Period 1 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cents* | Approximate ratios | Cents* | Approximate ratios | |
| 0 | 0.0 | 1/1 | 600.0 | 7/5, 10/7 |
| 1 | 707.2 | 3/2 | 107.2 | 15/14, 16/15, 21/20 |
| 2 | 214.4 | 8/7, 9/8 | 814.4 | 8/5 |
| 3 | 921.5 | 12/7 | 321.5 | 6/5 |
| 4 | 428.7 | 9/7, 14/11 | 1028.7 | 9/5, 20/11 |
| 5 | 1135.9 | 21/11, 27/14, 48/25, 64/33, 96/49 |
535.9 | 15/11, 27/20 |
| 6 | 643.1 | 16/11 | 43.1 | 45/44, 56/55, 81/80 |
| # | Period 0 | Period 1 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cents* | Approximate ratios | Cents* | Approximate ratios | |
| 0 | 0.0 | 1/1 | 600.0 | 7/5, 10/7 |
| 1 | 709.6 | 3/2 | 109.6 | 15/14, 16/15, 21/20 |
| 2 | 219.1 | 8/7, 9/8 | 819.1 | 8/5 |
| 3 | 928.7 | 12/7 | 328.7 | 6/5, 11/9 |
| 4 | 438.2 | 9/7 | 1038.2 | 9/5, 11/6 |
| 5 | 1147.8 | 27/14, 48/25, 55/28, 88/45, 96/49 |
547.8 | 11/8, 27/20 |
| 6 | 657.3 | 22/15 | 57.3 | 22/21, 33/32, 81/80 |
* In 11-limit CWE tuning, octave-reduced
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