Marin Mersenne
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Marin Mersenne was a French mathematician and music theorist. He is known for inventing mersenne primes, which are a big deal outside of musical tuning, but within music they define the mersenne commas. He also invented a number of musical scales and contributed to the early precursors of regular temperament theory.
The Ellis Duodene is equivalent to Mersenne’s spinet tuning #1. Marveldene is based upon it.
See also
- Gruber, Albion. Mersenne and Evolving Tonal Theory. Journal of Music Theory, Spring 1970.
- Mersenne commas
- The Holdrian comma
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