Talk:List of meantone intervals

Category and List
I'm just wondering, why not put this content directly on the category page? It seems to me that you have just created two pages with the same purpose. One is a list of meantone intervals, and one is a category which lists meantone intervals. (Why have an interested user visit both?) - Rainwarrior 17:41, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

88-EDO
As this is a list of meantone intervals, we should restrict the tunings shown to meantone temperaments (and just intonation equivalents for comparison). 88 equal divisions of the octave is not a meantone, so it doesn't belong here. 12-EDO, 19-EDO, and 31-EDO belong, and quarter-comma and $2/7$-comma should probably be added. Lucy Tuning itself is a type of meantone, so it could potentially be added (it may not be as significant as the others, but that's a different argument), but 88-EDO is not, so it shouldn't. &mdash; Gwalla | Talk 17:00, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

I added 50-EDO, which corresponds to extended-$2/7$-comma meantone temperament. Rather than also add quarter-comma meantone (which would complicate the list), I noted that, according to Duffet, it corresponds closely to the already-listed 31-EDO. Similarly, extended-eleventh-comma meantone corresponds to 12-EDO, and extended-third-comma meantone corresponds to 19-EDO; these have been noted in the table. Glenn L (talk) 16:54, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

1/5- and 1/6-comma meantone (along with their approximants 43 and 55 EDO) also belong in the table, especially since these are very commonly deployed in practice. Gambaguru (talk) 19:27, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Adding audio files?
I'm trying to add links to audio files on this page just like List of musical intervals. Am I doing it correctly? I need help to add the others.--206.248.172.247 (talk) 22:19, 10 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I replied at Talk:List of musical intervals. —Keenan Pepper 13:02, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Missing intervals
There are six intervals missing from the 31EDO column. I was wondering if they should be added? What note names/symbols should be used for these missing intervals? SharkD (talk) 20:17, 2 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Those are the neutral intervals. Conventional Western music theory doesn't give them names, and they can't be spelled without using microtonal notation such as quarter-tone accidentals, which has never been standardized. &mdash; Gwalla | Talk 22:35, 27 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Well, they can equally easily be spelt as double-sharps and double-flats. 4 steps up from C in 31-EDO could be written D (halfway between 3 steps, D♭, and 5 steps, D♮), but could equally well be written C (as C♯ is 2 steps up from C, so another two steps up from C♯ must give C). Double sharp (talk) 10:33, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Roman numerals???
Surely the column of Roman numerals should instead be Arabic numerals (possibly with circumflexes). Arabic numerals are the standard way of indicating scale degrees, whereas Roman numerals are used to designate chords or regions. Gambaguru (talk) 19:36, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Unclear
I found this article confusing, and almost incomprehensible. I'm reading it on my phone; perhaps it's better in a desktop version?

In particular, the quote from Duffin makes little sense grammatically, perhaps owing to what's been left out. Also, the table is unclear: yoyo (talk) 21:36, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
 * which of the two ratios does a numbered step of 19-EDO correspond to?
 * what is mean by a "classical ratio"? (I'm guessing a 5-prime-limit ratio: using ratios whose numerator and denominator have only the primes 2, 3 and 5 as factors.)
 * what is mean by a "septimal ratio"? (I'm guessing a 7-prime-limit ratio.)