21edt

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Prime factorization 3 × 7
Step size 90.5693¢ 
Octave 13\21edt (1177.4¢)
Consistency limit 4
Distinct consistency limit 4

21 equal divisions of the tritave, perfect twelfth, or 3rd harmonic (abbreviated 21edt or 21ed3), is a nonoctave tuning system that divides the interval of 3/1 into 21 equal parts of about 90.6 ¢ each. Each step represents a frequency ratio of 31/21, or the 21st root of 3.

Intervals

Degrees Cents Hekts Approximate Ratio
0 1/1
1 90.569 61.905 21/20, 135/128
2 181.139 123.81 10/9
3 271.708 185.714 7/6
4 362.277 247.619 16/13
5 452.846 309.524 13/10
6 543.416 371.429 15/11, 11/8
7 633.985 433.333 13/9
8 724.554 495.238 35/23
9 815.124 557.143 8/5
10 905.693 619.048 27/16
11 996.262 680.952 16/9
12 1086.831 742.857 15/8
13 1177.401 804.762 69/35
14 1267.97 866.667 27/13
15 1358.539 928.571 11/5 (11/10 plus an octave), 24/11 (12/11 plus an octave)
16 1449.109 990.476 30/13 (15/13 plus an octave)
17 1539.678 1052.381 39/16
18 1630.247 1114.286 18/7 (9/7 plus an octave)
19 1720.816 1076.19 27/10
20 1811.386 1238.095 20/7, 128/45
21 1901.955 1300 3/1

21edt contains 6 intervals from 7edt and 2 intervals from 3edt, meaning that it introduces 12 new intervals not available in lower edt's. These new intervals allow for construction of strange chords like 9:10:13:16:22:27:30...

21edt contains a 7L7s MOS similar to Whitewood, which I call Ivory. It has a period of 1/7 of the tritave and the generator is one step. The major scale is LsLsLsLsLsLsLs, and the minor scale is sLsLsLsLsLsLsL.

21edt also contains a 4L5s MOS similar to BP, with a 4:1 ratio of large to small; quite exaggerated from the optimal 2:1. Although the 7/3 is a little off, the 4L+5s BP scale is pretty. However, one of the star scales in 21edt is the 3L+6s (ssLssLssL and modes thereof) which is very harmonically rich, the cornerstone of which is the approximate 9:13:19 chord (which is just the 3edt essentially tempered chord).

Harmonics

Not the best approximations but all within 20 cents: it has 5th (+20¢), 7th (−16¢), 10th (+2¢), 11th (+15¢), 13th (−3¢), 17th (−14¢), 23rd (+6¢), and 37th (−2¢) harmonics. For a lower division of the tritave that's quite a constellation! The chord is a little out of tune but it works, you can really sink into it.


Approximation of harmonics in 21edt
Harmonic 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Error Absolute (¢) -22.6 +0.0 -45.2 +21.3 -22.6 -17.8 +22.8 +0.0 -1.3 +14.9 -45.2
Relative (%) -25.0 +0.0 -49.9 +23.6 -25.0 -19.6 +25.1 +0.0 -1.4 +16.4 -49.9
Steps
(reduced)
13
(13)
21
(0)
26
(5)
31
(10)
34
(13)
37
(16)
40
(19)
42
(0)
44
(2)
46
(4)
47
(5)
Approximation of harmonics in 21edt
Harmonic 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
Error Absolute (¢) -2.6 -40.4 +21.3 +0.2 -14.2 -22.6 -25.6 -23.9 -17.8 -7.7 +5.9
Relative (%) -2.9 -44.6 +23.6 +0.2 -15.7 -25.0 -28.3 -26.3 -19.6 -8.5 +6.5
Steps
(reduced)
49
(7)
50
(8)
52
(10)
53
(11)
54
(12)
55
(13)
56
(14)
57
(15)
58
(16)
59
(17)
60
(18)