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GregorArturo · 11-18-2008, 11:58 PM

If anyone can help with the most appropriate scale it would be greatly appreciated. I am using five-limit just intonation which is based on the primes 2, 3, & 5. My previous scale was most related to "pythagorean tuning" and was based on the primes of 2 & 3 only.

I'm reading through this article at the moment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_intonation

You should take a look at it for yourself if want to gain a more thorough but basic understanding to harmonic theory. Anyways, it seems pythagorean tuning actually used 13 notes! I am not completely positive on this but going to verify it mathematically.

EDIT NOTE: Look at the second/latter Indian scale on the Wiki article. It's based on 22 notes which essentially looks like it merges the notation systems together including all of the ratios! I'm gonna have to play around with this a little.

11-18-2008, 11:58 PM	#124
GregorArturo Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Southern Maine Posts: 560	Re: Cracking the Code If anyone can help with the most appropriate scale it would be greatly appreciated. I am using five-limit just intonation which is based on the primes 2, 3, & 5. My previous scale was most related to "pythagorean tuning" and was based on the primes of 2 & 3 only. I'm reading through this article at the moment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_intonation You should take a look at it for yourself if want to gain a more thorough but basic understanding to harmonic theory. Anyways, it seems pythagorean tuning actually used 13 notes! I am not completely positive on this but going to verify it mathematically. EDIT NOTE: Look at the second/latter Indian scale on the Wiki article. It's based on 22 notes which essentially looks like it merges the notation systems together including all of the ratios! I'm gonna have to play around with this a little. Last edited by GregorArturo; 11-19-2008 at 12:08 AM.