Comparison of Various Meantone Cycles

©2001 by Joe Monzo

(inspired by this lattice applet by Ming Sun Ho)

MouseOver the names of the various meantone cycles to see a graph of the pitches.

(I recommend using full-screen view. Note that 1/11-comma is essentially identical to 12-EDO. In every case here, "comma" refers to the syntonic comma.)

1/2-comma 19edo 1/3-comma 2/7-comma 50edo 7/26-comma 1/4-comma 31edo 1/5-comma 43edo 55edo 1/6-comma 1/11-comma


Updated: 2000.10.5

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