Tetrameantone

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The tetrameantone temperament is a nonoctave temperament tempering out 81/80 in the 4.3.5-subgroup. It is similar to meantone but repeats at the double octave 4/1. It is generated by 3/1 and, like in normal meantone temperament, four of them make a 5/1 plus two double octaves.

For technical information see Subgroup temperaments#Tetrameantone.

Interval chain

In the following table, odd harmonics 1–5 are bolded.

# Cents* Approximate Ratios
0 0.000 1/1
1 1896.239 3/1
2 1392.477 9/4, 20/9
3 888.716 5/3
4 384.955 5/4
5 2281.193 15/4
6 1777.432 45/16
7 1273.671 25/12

* in 4.3.5-subgroup POTE tuning

Tetrameantone on tritave

Tritave-repeating tetrameantone (3.4.5 subgroup) is made by cutting off the 4/3 interval range of the tetratave scale. extension will start at 3.4.5.14 subgroup. If we want strict no-twos subgroup, will be 3.5.13.

Generators Cents (15edt) Approximate ratios 3.4.5.14 3.5.13
-7 253.594 7/6 15/13
-6 760.782 25/16, 63/40, 14/9 125/81
-5 1267.970 25/12, 21/10 27/13
-4 1775.158 45/16, 14/5 25/9
-3 380.391 5/4 81/65
-2 887.579 27/16, 5/3 5/3
-1 1394.767 9/4, 20/9 729/325
0 0.000 1/1 1/1
1 507.188 4/3, 27/20 325/243
2 1014.376 16/9, 9/5 9/5
3 1521.564 12/5 65/27
4 126.797 16/15, 15/14 27/25
5 633.985 36/25, 10/7 13/9
6 1141.173 48/25, 40/21, 27/14 243/125
7 1648.361 18/7 13/5

b15 & b4p

Subgroup: 3.5.13

Comma list: 531441/528125

Sval mapping: [1 2 1], 0 -2 5]]

Sval mapping generators: ~3, ~325/243

POTE generator: ~325/243 = 508.099