Talk:Bug and beep

About the origin of the name "beep": I don't recall who came up with it, but it wasn't me. I got it from Gene Ward Smith's list of "114 7-limit temperaments", in which he wrote "Most of the names are old ones. In some cases I extended a 5-limit name to what seemed like the appropriate 7-limit temperament, and in the case of The Temperament Formerly Known as Duodecimal, am suggesting Waage or Compton if one of these gentlemen invented it." I've found previous references to "beep" as the 27/25 comma, and I haven't found any earlier references to it as a 7-limit temperament, so it seems likely that this is one of those cases of a 5-limit temperament extended to 7-limit. My recollection is that "beep" is a reference to the smallest step of the Bohlen-Pierce scale.

Tuning-Math archive copy of Gene's "114 7-limit temperaments" list: https://robertinventor.online/tuning-math/s__10/msg_9350-9374.html#9371