En réponse à Danny Wier <dawier@...>:
> Just for fun, and this is obviously a concultural issue and not
> conlang-related: the "official" tuning of the 53-tone scale used by
> the
> (sub)culture, micronation etc. connected with my conlang project is made
> up
> of these intervals:
>
[snip] Wow! That's impressive! Is there a logic in the succession of fractions?
Must there be one (except the concept of Just Intonation)? If there is, it must
a monstruous work to create a new music scale!!!
>
> The first and last notes of the scale are the equivalent of Western
> sol/G =
> 98/196/392 Hz (since the Arabic scale starts at that note).
Does it start exactly at the same note as Western G? Or is it just the nearest
equivalent? I'm still wondering whether the values of the Western octave are
there by chance or if there's a reason behind the value 440Hz for the basic A...
Christophe.
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