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=Temperament Name Etymologies:=
===Amity:===
Origin: Pre-Middle-Path
Meaning: A restructuring of the words "acute minor third." The ideal generator for Amity is between a minor third and neutral third.
===Ammonite:===
Origin: 2011, Keenan Pepper
Meaning: Keenan Pepper suggested it was a good name of a weird spiral-shaped animal, for a temperament in the porcupine family (like nautilus)
===A-Team:===
"A-Team comes from 18, where it's about optimal." - Mike Battaglia
===Augene:===
Originally tripletone, in analogy with twintone, but when twintone was renamed pajara Paul Erlich suggested it should be augene, after augmented and Gene Smith.
===Avila:===
Origin: 2011, Mike Battaglia, Ron Sword, Ryan Avella
Meaning: Originally discovered by Ryan by accident while he was reading the mapping for Mavila temperament incorrectly. It is the original spelling of Ryan's surname.
===Beatles:===
Named for the 19\64 generator, since 1964 is the year the Beatlemania swept the world.
===Blackwood:===
Origin: Middle-Path or Pre-Middle-Path
Meaning: Named after Easley Blackwood's 10-out-of-15 maximally even scale.
===Breed:===
The rank three 2401/2400 temperament, named after [[Graham Breed]].
===Catakleismic:===
The "cata" prefix means "down", and the catakleismic generator is very slightly down from the hanson generator, a temperament called "kleismic" until Paul Erlich decided the name must and shall be changed.
===Catler:===
Named for [[Jon Catler]].
===Dicot:===
Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 2 equal parts, hence "di-". Not sure why "-cot". "-Cot" has been suggested to originate from 'cotyledon,' the name for the embryo of a plant seed.
Avella: well apparently someone decided that "cot" should refer to the fifth
Avella: it is arbitrary
===Dominant:===
Meaning: It's meantone which calls the dominant seventh chord a 4:5:6:7. It is one of the least complex 7-limit extensions of meantone.
===Doublewide:===
Named after a type of mobile home.
===Ennealimmal:===
Origin: Gene Smith
Meaning: Ennealimmal has a 1/9-octave period, hence "ennea-"; the period is very close to the large limma, [[27_25|27/25]], hence "limmal".
===Ervsec:===
A name derived from a scale discovered by Erv Wilson and George Secor in the 80's while George was visiting Erv.
===Father:===
Origin: 2000s?
Meaning: A combination of the words "fourth" and "third." This is meant to represent the unification of perfect fourths and major thirds in Father temperament.
===Flattone:===
Origin: Gene Smith
Meaning: A variant of meantone in which the whole tone is flatter than in septimal meantone.
===Glacial:===
Origin: 2012, Igliashon Jones, Mike Battaglia
Meaning: Glacial sounds like "Igliashon."
===Godzilla:===
Named by Gene Smith after a Japanese fictional monster; part of the daikaiju series of names for temperaments with an approximate 8/7 as generator.
===Gravity:===
Named after its 40/25 "grave fifth" generator.
===Hanson:===
Larry Hanson's 34-edo guitar (9\34 generator)
===Harry:===
Derived from a theory that you might be able to play the music of Harry Partch in it without driving him nuts so long as you didn't say that was what you were doing.
===Hedgehog:===
So named because it is in the PORCUPINE family, but different.
===Helmholtz:===
So named because Hermann von Helmholtz proposed 1/8-schisma flattened fifths.
===Injera:===
Origin: Paul Erlich
Meaning: Named after an Ethiopian flatbread because 26edo represents it well, and the Ethiopian alphabet has 26 consonants.
===Jamesbond:===
Named from the fact that the wedgie is <<0 0 7 ...||
===Keemun:===
Keemun (simplified Chinese: 祁门红茶; traditional Chinese: 祁門紅茶; pinyin: qímén hóngchá; literally "Qimen red tea") is a black Chinese tea with a winey and fruity taste, designated as a China Famous Tea. Since it sounds sort of like kleismic, it was given this name in Paul Erlich's paper, thereby ending the unfortunate practice of calling this temperament, quite different from hanson, by the name "kleismic" also.
===Mabila:===
Origin: 2011, Gene Smith, Ryan Avella
Meaning: Named after Mavila temperament due to their similar tunings and scale structure.
===Machine:===
Mike Battaglia named it because it sounded like a 4:7:9:11 machine.
===**Magic**:===
Origin: Graham Breed
The "mag-" prefix stands for "major third."
===Marvel:===
Rather bizarrely, the 11-limit extension of the king of 7-limit planar temperaments [[http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/50829|was named first]].
===Mavila:===
Origin: 1990s? Kraig Grady
Meaning: Named after the Chopi village of Mavila in Mozambique, known for their use near-equal heptatonic scales. Nobody can agree on how to pronounce this word.
===Meantone:===
Origin: Really really old
Meaning: Named so because it maps the major whole tone (9/8) and the minor whole tone (10/9) to the same interval, which is near the average of the two tones in ideal tunings.
===Miracle:===
Origin: Joe Monzo
Meaning: It is a miracle that this scale is so accurate! Many people falsely attribute its origin to the backronym "Multitude of Integer Ratios Approximated Consistently, Linearly and Evenly."
===Mohajira:===
Origin: Jacques Dudon
Meaning: means "wandering" in Arabic.
===Mothra:===
Named by Gene Smith after a Japanese fictional monster: a daikaiju name for a temperament with ~8/7 generator. Mothra has defeated Godzilla more times than any other daikaiju; the musical meaning of this fact is at best speculative.
===Myna:===
Myna is related to starling, the 126/125 planar temperament, and a myna is a member of the starling familily (Sturnidae.)
===Negri ("negripent", "negrisept"):===
Origin: 2001, (Paul Erlich?)
Meaning: Named after John Negri's 10-out-of-19 maximally even scale.
===Octacot:===
Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 8 equal parts, therefore "octa-".
===Orgone:===
Origin: 2010, Andrew Heathwaite
Meaning: An analogy between Wilhelm Reich's proposal for an invisible, ephemeral creative energy and the subtleties of the higher harmonics 7 and 11.
===Orwell:===
Origin: 2001, Gene Smith
Meaning: Named after George Orwell's book 1984, because of the generator of 19\84.
===Pajara:===
Origin: Originally (up to 2001) paultone and then twintone, in analogy with meantone, but Paul Erlich didn't like this and suggested pajara, after "Paul, John, and Ara," the three people jamming at his house at some random point in time.
===Porcupine:===
Origin: 1999? Herman Miller
Meaning: Named after Herman Miller's Mizarian Porcupine Overture in 15-EDO.
===Rodan:===
Named by Gene Smith after a Japanese fictional monster. A daikaiju name, from the 8/7 generator.
===Semaphore:===
Meaning: semi-fourth, i.e. half of a 4/3
===Sensi: (also 'Sensipent,' 'Sensisept')===
Originally semisixths, but after it was decided that "bi" or "semi" should be half for periods and "hemi" should be half for generators, that was contracted to sensi.
===Slendric:===
Named after slendro which it resembles very little.
===Squares:===
Named from the fact that the wedgie is <<4 16 9 ...||, which is 2^2, 4^2, 3^2.
===Starling:===
The 126/125 planar temperament, named after Herman Miller's Starling scale.
===Srutal:===
A name proposed by Paul Erlich because the 22-tone MOS looks a lot like the Indian Shruti scale.
===Superpyth:===
Meaning: fifths are wider than Pythagorean, hence super-Pythagorean or "superpyth"
===Tetracot:===
Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 4 equal parts, hence "tetra-". Not sure why "-cot".
===Triforce:===
Triforce has 3 periods per octave.
===Valentine:===
Named for Robert C Valentine.
===Whitewood:===
Meaning: Black keys are to Blackwood as white keys are to Whitewood.Original HTML content:
<html><head><title>Temperament Names</title></head><body><!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:0:<h1> --><h1 id="toc0"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:0 -->Temperament Name Etymologies:</h1> <br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:2:<h3> --><h3 id="toc1"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Amity:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:2 -->Amity:</h3> Origin: Pre-Middle-Path<br /> Meaning: A restructuring of the words "acute minor third." The ideal generator for Amity is between a minor third and neutral third.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:4:<h3> --><h3 id="toc2"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Ammonite:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:4 -->Ammonite:</h3> Origin: 2011, Keenan Pepper<br /> Meaning: Keenan Pepper suggested it was a good name of a weird spiral-shaped animal, for a temperament in the porcupine family (like nautilus)<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:6:<h3> --><h3 id="toc3"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--A-Team:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:6 -->A-Team:</h3> "A-Team comes from 18, where it's about optimal." - Mike Battaglia<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:8:<h3> --><h3 id="toc4"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Augene:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:8 -->Augene:</h3> Originally tripletone, in analogy with twintone, but when twintone was renamed pajara Paul Erlich suggested it should be augene, after augmented and Gene Smith.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:10:<h3> --><h3 id="toc5"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Avila:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:10 -->Avila:</h3> Origin: 2011, Mike Battaglia, Ron Sword, Ryan Avella<br /> Meaning: Originally discovered by Ryan by accident while he was reading the mapping for Mavila temperament incorrectly. It is the original spelling of Ryan's surname.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:12:<h3> --><h3 id="toc6"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Beatles:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:12 -->Beatles:</h3> Named for the 19\64 generator, since 1964 is the year the Beatlemania swept the world.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:14:<h3> --><h3 id="toc7"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Blackwood:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:14 -->Blackwood:</h3> Origin: Middle-Path or Pre-Middle-Path<br /> Meaning: Named after Easley Blackwood's 10-out-of-15 maximally even scale.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:16:<h3> --><h3 id="toc8"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Breed:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:16 -->Breed:</h3> The rank three 2401/2400 temperament, named after <a class="wiki_link" href="/Graham%20Breed">Graham Breed</a>.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:18:<h3> --><h3 id="toc9"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Catakleismic:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:18 -->Catakleismic:</h3> The "cata" prefix means "down", and the catakleismic generator is very slightly down from the hanson generator, a temperament called "kleismic" until Paul Erlich decided the name must and shall be changed.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:20:<h3> --><h3 id="toc10"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Catler:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:20 -->Catler:</h3> Named for <a class="wiki_link" href="/Jon%20Catler">Jon Catler</a>.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:22:<h3> --><h3 id="toc11"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Dicot:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:22 -->Dicot:</h3> Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 2 equal parts, hence "di-". Not sure why "-cot". "-Cot" has been suggested to originate from 'cotyledon,' the name for the embryo of a plant seed.<br /> <br /> Avella: well apparently someone decided that "cot" should refer to the fifth<br /> Avella: it is arbitrary<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:24:<h3> --><h3 id="toc12"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Dominant:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:24 -->Dominant:</h3> Meaning: It's meantone which calls the dominant seventh chord a 4:5:6:7. It is one of the least complex 7-limit extensions of meantone.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:26:<h3> --><h3 id="toc13"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Doublewide:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:26 -->Doublewide:</h3> Named after a type of mobile home.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:28:<h3> --><h3 id="toc14"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Ennealimmal:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:28 -->Ennealimmal:</h3> Origin: Gene Smith<br /> Meaning: Ennealimmal has a 1/9-octave period, hence "ennea-"; the period is very close to the large limma, <a class="wiki_link" href="/27_25">27/25</a>, hence "limmal".<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:30:<h3> --><h3 id="toc15"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Ervsec:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:30 -->Ervsec:</h3> A name derived from a scale discovered by Erv Wilson and George Secor in the 80's while George was visiting Erv.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:32:<h3> --><h3 id="toc16"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Father:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:32 -->Father:</h3> Origin: 2000s?<br /> Meaning: A combination of the words "fourth" and "third." This is meant to represent the unification of perfect fourths and major thirds in Father temperament.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:34:<h3> --><h3 id="toc17"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Flattone:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:34 -->Flattone:</h3> Origin: Gene Smith<br /> Meaning: A variant of meantone in which the whole tone is flatter than in septimal meantone.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:36:<h3> --><h3 id="toc18"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Glacial:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:36 -->Glacial:</h3> Origin: 2012, Igliashon Jones, Mike Battaglia<br /> Meaning: Glacial sounds like "Igliashon."<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:38:<h3> --><h3 id="toc19"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Godzilla:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:38 -->Godzilla:</h3> Named by Gene Smith after a Japanese fictional monster; part of the daikaiju series of names for temperaments with an approximate 8/7 as generator.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:40:<h3> --><h3 id="toc20"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Gravity:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:40 -->Gravity:</h3> Named after its 40/25 "grave fifth" generator.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:42:<h3> --><h3 id="toc21"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Hanson:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:42 -->Hanson:</h3> Larry Hanson's 34-edo guitar (9\34 generator)<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:44:<h3> --><h3 id="toc22"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Harry:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:44 -->Harry:</h3> Derived from a theory that you might be able to play the music of Harry Partch in it without driving him nuts so long as you didn't say that was what you were doing.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:46:<h3> --><h3 id="toc23"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Hedgehog:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:46 -->Hedgehog:</h3> So named because it is in the PORCUPINE family, but different.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:48:<h3> --><h3 id="toc24"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Helmholtz:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:48 -->Helmholtz:</h3> So named because Hermann von Helmholtz proposed 1/8-schisma flattened fifths.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:50:<h3> --><h3 id="toc25"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Injera:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:50 -->Injera:</h3> Origin: Paul Erlich<br /> Meaning: Named after an Ethiopian flatbread because 26edo represents it well, and the Ethiopian alphabet has 26 consonants.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:52:<h3> --><h3 id="toc26"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Jamesbond:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:52 -->Jamesbond:</h3> Named from the fact that the wedgie is <<0 0 7 ...||<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:54:<h3> --><h3 id="toc27"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Keemun:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:54 -->Keemun:</h3> Keemun (simplified Chinese: 祁门红茶; traditional Chinese: 祁門紅茶; pinyin: qímén hóngchá; literally "Qimen red tea") is a black Chinese tea with a winey and fruity taste, designated as a China Famous Tea. Since it sounds sort of like kleismic, it was given this name in Paul Erlich's paper, thereby ending the unfortunate practice of calling this temperament, quite different from hanson, by the name "kleismic" also.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:56:<h3> --><h3 id="toc28"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Mabila:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:56 -->Mabila:</h3> Origin: 2011, Gene Smith, Ryan Avella<br /> Meaning: Named after Mavila temperament due to their similar tunings and scale structure.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:58:<h3> --><h3 id="toc29"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Machine:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:58 -->Machine:</h3> Mike Battaglia named it because it sounded like a 4:7:9:11 machine.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:60:<h3> --><h3 id="toc30"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Magic:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:60 --><strong>Magic</strong>:</h3> Origin: Graham Breed<br /> The "mag-" prefix stands for "major third."<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:62:<h3> --><h3 id="toc31"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Marvel:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:62 -->Marvel:</h3> Rather bizarrely, the 11-limit extension of the king of 7-limit planar temperaments <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/50829" rel="nofollow">was named first</a>.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:64:<h3> --><h3 id="toc32"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Mavila:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:64 -->Mavila:</h3> Origin: 1990s? Kraig Grady<br /> Meaning: Named after the Chopi village of Mavila in Mozambique, known for their use near-equal heptatonic scales. Nobody can agree on how to pronounce this word.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:66:<h3> --><h3 id="toc33"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Meantone:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:66 -->Meantone:</h3> Origin: Really really old<br /> Meaning: Named so because it maps the major whole tone (9/8) and the minor whole tone (10/9) to the same interval, which is near the average of the two tones in ideal tunings.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:68:<h3> --><h3 id="toc34"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Miracle:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:68 -->Miracle:</h3> Origin: Joe Monzo<br /> Meaning: It is a miracle that this scale is so accurate! Many people falsely attribute its origin to the backronym "Multitude of Integer Ratios Approximated Consistently, Linearly and Evenly."<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:70:<h3> --><h3 id="toc35"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Mohajira:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:70 -->Mohajira:</h3> Origin: Jacques Dudon<br /> Meaning: means "wandering" in Arabic.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:72:<h3> --><h3 id="toc36"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Mothra:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:72 -->Mothra:</h3> Named by Gene Smith after a Japanese fictional monster: a daikaiju name for a temperament with ~8/7 generator. Mothra has defeated Godzilla more times than any other daikaiju; the musical meaning of this fact is at best speculative.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:74:<h3> --><h3 id="toc37"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Myna:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:74 -->Myna:</h3> Myna is related to starling, the 126/125 planar temperament, and a myna is a member of the starling familily (Sturnidae.)<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:76:<h3> --><h3 id="toc38"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Negri ("negripent", "negrisept"):"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:76 -->Negri ("negripent", "negrisept"):</h3> Origin: 2001, (Paul Erlich?)<br /> Meaning: Named after John Negri's 10-out-of-19 maximally even scale.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:78:<h3> --><h3 id="toc39"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Octacot:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:78 -->Octacot:</h3> Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 8 equal parts, therefore "octa-".<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:80:<h3> --><h3 id="toc40"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Orgone:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:80 -->Orgone:</h3> Origin: 2010, Andrew Heathwaite<br /> Meaning: An analogy between Wilhelm Reich's proposal for an invisible, ephemeral creative energy and the subtleties of the higher harmonics 7 and 11.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:82:<h3> --><h3 id="toc41"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Orwell:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:82 -->Orwell:</h3> Origin: 2001, Gene Smith<br /> Meaning: Named after George Orwell's book 1984, because of the generator of 19\84.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:84:<h3> --><h3 id="toc42"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Pajara:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:84 -->Pajara:</h3> Origin: Originally (up to 2001) paultone and then twintone, in analogy with meantone, but Paul Erlich didn't like this and suggested pajara, after "Paul, John, and Ara," the three people jamming at his house at some random point in time.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:86:<h3> --><h3 id="toc43"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Porcupine:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:86 -->Porcupine:</h3> Origin: 1999? Herman Miller<br /> Meaning: Named after Herman Miller's Mizarian Porcupine Overture in 15-EDO.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:88:<h3> --><h3 id="toc44"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Rodan:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:88 -->Rodan:</h3> Named by Gene Smith after a Japanese fictional monster. A daikaiju name, from the 8/7 generator.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:90:<h3> --><h3 id="toc45"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Semaphore:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:90 -->Semaphore:</h3> Meaning: semi-fourth, i.e. half of a 4/3<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:92:<h3> --><h3 id="toc46"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Sensi: (also 'Sensipent,' 'Sensisept')"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:92 -->Sensi: (also 'Sensipent,' 'Sensisept')</h3> Originally semisixths, but after it was decided that "bi" or "semi" should be half for periods and "hemi" should be half for generators, that was contracted to sensi.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:94:<h3> --><h3 id="toc47"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Slendric:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:94 -->Slendric:</h3> Named after slendro which it resembles very little.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:96:<h3> --><h3 id="toc48"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Squares:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:96 -->Squares:</h3> Named from the fact that the wedgie is <<4 16 9 ...||, which is 2^2, 4^2, 3^2.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:98:<h3> --><h3 id="toc49"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Starling:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:98 -->Starling:</h3> The 126/125 planar temperament, named after Herman Miller's Starling scale.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:100:<h3> --><h3 id="toc50"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Srutal:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:100 -->Srutal:</h3> A name proposed by Paul Erlich because the 22-tone MOS looks a lot like the Indian Shruti scale.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:102:<h3> --><h3 id="toc51"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Superpyth:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:102 -->Superpyth:</h3> Meaning: fifths are wider than Pythagorean, hence super-Pythagorean or "superpyth"<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:104:<h3> --><h3 id="toc52"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Tetracot:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:104 -->Tetracot:</h3> Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 4 equal parts, hence "tetra-". Not sure why "-cot".<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:106:<h3> --><h3 id="toc53"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Triforce:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:106 -->Triforce:</h3> Triforce has 3 periods per octave.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:108:<h3> --><h3 id="toc54"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Valentine:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:108 -->Valentine:</h3> Named for Robert C Valentine.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:110:<h3> --><h3 id="toc55"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Whitewood:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:110 -->Whitewood:</h3> Meaning: Black keys are to Blackwood as white keys are to Whitewood.</body></html>