Tuning Methods

Harmonic Series Tunings

Composites Only

49-87

This tuning has the highest harmonic complexity of these composite-only harmonic fragment tunings. It also sounds rather ugly, though I'm not sure that's why.

Scale
Degree
Har-
monic
 Ratio QuotientCentsTuning
Table
Rounded
Tuning
Table
Note
Name
1491:110.0017.9218C
25151:491.04081632769.26-12.82-13C#
35555:491.12244898199.9817.9018D
45757:491.163265306261.82-20.27-20D#
5639:71.285714286435.0853.0053E
66565:491.326530612489.197.117F
76969:491.408163265592.5810.4910F#
87575:491.530612245736.9354.8555G
97711:71.571428571782.490.410G#
108181:491.653061224870.17-11.91-12A
118585:491.734693878953.62-28.47-28A#
128787:491.775510204993.88-88.20-88B

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Largest step size:206.12 c (98:87)
Smallest step size:40.26 c (87:85)
Number of step sizes:12 
Prime Limit:29 
Odd Limit:87 
HC = 42.6 

2005 by David J. Finnamore
tuning@elvenminstrel.com