Two tunings included with Scala: "Tau-On-Side Opposite" and "Upside Down Wedding Cake"
Scala comes with a very large collection of tunings. Many of these are mysterious to me. Specifically, I'm seeking information about these two:
pyramid_down.scl 12 Upside-Down Wedding Cake (divorce cake)
t-side2.scl 12 Tau-on-Side opposite
I'll take anything I can get at this point -- historical information about who made them and why, technical / mathematical information about how they're constructed, examples of their use in music etc.
Incidentally, I have no reason to believe these are related, they just stood out to me when I was exploring the collection. I'm currently using them both in a piece of music so I'd like to be able to say something about them when asked (or even when nobody asks).
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At this point, virtually all of the online microtonal/xenharmonic presence is at Facebook's "Xenharmonic Alliance," "Xenharmonic Alliance - Mathematical Theory", and "Microtonal Music and Tuning Theory" groups. You are all encouraged to join those!
The messages from this group have all been archived. The archive is at: yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/ You can also always get the Xenharmonic Wiki at: en.xen.wiki/w/Main_Page Thanks and I'll see you all there!
There's also a group on MeWe (Dr. Oz posts there, but he's not on Facebook). mewe.com/group/5c9c1bc3d71e3023f90fe123 ....and an email list run by Aaron Krister Johnson at tuning-discuss@untwelve.org. You should be able to sign up here: lists.untwelve.org/listinfo.cgi/tuning-discuss-untwelve.org There's also a (quiet) Slack, if you're interested in more real-time interactions. Let me know if you're interested.
Jake Freivald
Tunings and creation dates from ScalaVista Online Scale Archive
Pyramid / Wedding Cake
Created: February 19, 1996
9/8, 75/64, 5/4, 4/3, 45/32, 3/2, 25/16, 5/3, 27/16, 16/9, 15/8, 2/1
Pyramid down / Upside-down Wedding Cake / Divorce Cake
Created: February 19, 1996
16/15, 9/8, 6/5, 32/25, 4/3, 3/2, 8/5, 27/16, 16/9, 9/5, 48/25, 2/1
Tau-on-side
Created: February 2, 2010
25/24, 16/15, 9/8, 5/4, 4/3, 45/32, 3/2, 25/16, 8/5, 5/3, 15/8, 2/1
Tau-on-side opposite
Created: March 24, 2003
9/8, 75/64, 6/5, 5/4, 4/3, 45/32, 3/2, 5/3, 225/128, 9/5, 15/8, 2/1
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