Topic: Music and community -- George Secor 17-note tuning

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From: mschulter (2001-10-15)
Subject: Music and community -- George Secor 17-note tuning

Hello, there, Alison and everyone.

Here's George Secor's 17-note well-temperament (1978) in a version
from the Scala archive of scales:


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! secor.scl
!
George Secor's well temperament with 5 pure 11/7 and 3 near just 11/6  
 17
!
66.7425
144.855
214.440
278.340
353.610
428.880
492.780
562.365
640.4775
707.220
771.120
849.2325
921.660
985.560
1057.9875
1136.10
2/1

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In this file, the notes are given in cents with reference to the
octave C-C.

Please let me know if this format is helpful for you, and feel free to
ask more. I often tend to use this scale in a rather gentle kind of
electronic timbre, and it might be interesting so see how people hear
it with a range of instruments and timbres.

Thank you, Alison, for your encouragement to share a beautiful tuning from
someone who has done so much for our community over the years and decades.

Most appreciatively, in peace and love,

Margo

From: Paul Erlich (2001-10-15)
Subject: 22-tone well-temperament

If anyone is interested, here's my 22-tone well temperament, where 
some of the fifths are 705.75 cents (used for the Indian scales), and 
some are 711 cents (used in my decatonic scales). Here it is with the 
keyboard mapping I use for it, and comparisons with JI Indian tunings 
aligned with the same pitch for sruti #13:


keybd   cents   sruti   sa-grama        ma-grama
D	0	0	1/1 — 3.8	4/3 — 3.8	
D#	50.25	1			
E&F	105.75	2			
F#	161.25	3			
G	211.5	4	9/8 — 207.7	3/2 — 207.7	
G#	272.25	5		 	
A	322.5	6	6/5 — 319.4	8/5 — 319.4	
A#	383.25	7	5/4 — 390.1	5/3 — 390.1	
B	428.25	8			
c	494.25	9	4/3 — 501.8	16/9 — 501.8	
c#	539.25	10			
d	594.75	11	45/32 — 594	15/8 — 594	
d#	650.25	12			
e&f	705.75	13	3/2 — 705.75	1/1 — 705.75	
f#	761.25	14			
g	816.75	15	8/5 — 817.5	16/15 — 817.5	
g#	872.25	16			
a	917.25	17	27/16 — 909.7	9/8 — 909.7
a#	983.25	18			
b	1028.25	19	9/5 — 1021.4	6/5 — 1021.4
c'	1089	20	15/8 — 1092.1	5/4 — 1092.1	
c#'	1139.25	21