User:CompactStar/Ed16/9

This user page is editable by any wiki editor. As a general rule, most users expect their user space to be edited only by themselves, except for minor edits (e.g. maintenance), undoing obviously harmful edits such as vandalism or disruptive editing, and user talk pages. However, by including this message box, the author of this user page has indicated that this page is open to contributions from other users (e.g. content-related edits).

The equal division of 16/9 (ed16/9) is a tuning obtained by dividing the Pythagorean minor seventh (16/9) in a certain number of equal steps. An ed16/9 can be generated by taking every other tone of an ed4/3, so even-numbered ed16/9's are integer ed4/3's.

Division of 16/9 into equal parts does not necessarily imply directly using this interval as an equivalence.

The structural importance of 16/9 is suggested by its being the most common width for a tetrad in Western harmony, though it could be argued that this distinction belongs instead to 7/4 or 9/5 depending how one converts 10\12 into JI.