(Stud = English, a card game; Loco = Spanish, "crazy")
A 41-tone scale derived from an optimal generator called MIRACLE. The "standard" version of StudLoco gives it as a subset of 72-EDO, but it also may be tuned as 41edo.
For its relatively small size, this scale approximates an enormous number of 3-, 5-, 7-, and 11-limit just-intonation harmonic structures.
In keeping with the names of its smaller relatives, the blackjack and canasta scales, it was dubbed "StudLoco" after a Mexican variant of the popular card game Stud Poker, which uses a 41-card deck.
Below are graphs of the cents-values of the pitches in
a typical StudLoco chain, illustrated on the left as a
scale and on the right as a chain of generators from
-20 to +20 secors.
Below are the same graphs, but this time with the x-axis
quantized into 41edo instead of 12edo, which shows how
closely 41edo approximates the 72edo version of StudLoco.
(There are 4 degrees of 41edo in a
secor.)
See also
[from Joe Monzo, JustMusic:
A New Harmony]
Updated:
2002.10.10 -- graphs added
