Hey there! I'm Eliseo Palit-ang. I enjoy playing piano, guitar, and ukulele. Sadly all the instruments I play only have 12 notes per octave.
Favourite ETs/EDOs
- 19TET - This is a great tuning system. I really love how the the major sixth and minor third intervals are so perfectly in tune. The major third and minor sixth are closer to just intonation than 12TET as well. It's a really good tuning system to start with to explore microtonality, as the regular diatonic scale is preserved, meaning you can play almost all the music on the radio today. It will sound a little different though. What's really cool about is that many notes which used to be enharmonic no longer are, such as G♯ and A♭. Also, intervals such as 648/625, 36/35, 128/125, 50/49, and 64/63 are no longer tempered out. HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA has made a series on YouTube covering the basics of 19TET, which you can check out here. I'd love a guitar in this tuning. I'll get so many people asking how it works. I'd love a piano in this tuning, but I'm not exactly sure how it would look like. If you have a good idea for a piano with 19 notes per octave, let me know.
- 31TET - This is another great tuning system. Again, the regular diatonic scale is preserved. In addition, 31-TET has good approximations of 11-limit intervals, such as 7/4 and 11/9. So you can play chords such as the neutral triad (18:22:27, you can even add another neutral third on top for the neutral seventh chord: 18:22:27:33) and 4:6:7:9:11. I'd love a guitar in this tuning as well. For a piano, it's a little much, though I'd love to have a Lumatone keyboard, which works great for playing in this tuning.
- 72TET - This tuning system is awesome. It's lower in relative error than any previous EDO in the 11-limit, and is uniquely consistent in the 11-odd-limit. It's also consistent in in the 17-limit, although I have no interest in intervals higher than the 11-limit. As it is a superset of 12TET, you can play in all keys of 12TET, with improved intervals. It's quite a lot of notes, so it won't work so well on a guitar or piano or even a Lumatone keyboard. I think the only way 72TET can be played practically is if multiple people play different instruments tuned differently from one another.