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IN TUNINGLAND
24 harmonics
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User Scales to Kronos (Remember to save your own Global setting)
MEANTONES
is described in 1523 and was the most used mood for well over 100 years.
It gives 8 perfectly pure major thirds but with slightly more impure fifths than we are used to, but it is tolerable because of the strong pure thirds. Many old organs are tuned into this tuning and this is a tuning "every" musician should know.
One of the fifth is a WOLF, a completely useless interval.
The music had to be written within a limited area of chords and had an obvious limitation.
On the other hand, the circle of fifths was not "invented" yet, they played in few keys with few signs.
Here is an example of this completely different tuning, and we come in a different mood listening to it.
And in the last movement where Jesus is crucified, Scheidt uses the "ugly" intervals to recreate the drama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZNgi9Xf7M0
And we used the first movement in our testing of IN TUNINGLAND on an acoustic harpsichord.
We used both manuals (C0 and Bb+1).
(Click and hear if you want )
On the User Scale provided you can quickly change the starting point and thus play throughout the circle of fifths.
Open the User Scale in the patch or create a combi/program for each starting point and create a setlist for easy switching between these.
04 Center in Gb major
05 Center in Db major
06 Center in Ab-dur
07 Center in Eb major
08 Center in Bb major
09 Center in F major
10 Center in C major
11 Center in G major
12 Center in D major
13 Center in A major
14 Center in E major
15 Center in F # major
Even more extreme than 1/4 comma are these:
1/3 comma gives completely pure minor thirds and nearly pure major thirds and not so good fifths.
The 2/7 comma is in the middle between 1/3 and 1/4 and provides nearly pure major and minor thirds.
This I must especially recommend if you play a solo (with thirds) with overdrive.
I've used an overdriven harmonica with this tuning.
Then it works great if you play thirds, major and minor. Recommended.
Here (click) is an example I recorded with overdrive, but here is it many minor thirds in the beginning and ends in a major. So for the minor thirds it is best with 1/3 (beginning) and major best with 1/4 (end) .
Unfortunately I do not have the one in the middle (2/7)
But you can compare with the temperament we all know (Equal)
You may need to keep in touch with the bender while playing to adjust slightly. Maybe not...
On the mild side we have 1/6 comma which was a kind of ideal for Mozart and that period,
This one I have used very much.
Comfortable thirds, not as unusually, strange low and pure as 1/4 comma.
The fifths are fine, twice as narrow as in equal temperament (which has fine fifths).
Here (click) is my visualization of different meantones.
The length of the red vector shows how pure or impure the major thirds are. No vector = totally pure major thirds.
The length of the green vectors shows how pure the fifths are. You can also see it on how slanted the line is. (horizontal line= pure fifth)
Equal temperament, our tuning is a sort of meantone and the last one in this link.
It is of course better to read the introduction.
INTRODUCTION
I hope you find something interesting here!!
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