Quarter Comma Mean Tone

[@MabInstruments]

One of the things I like about quarter comma meantone with more than 12 notes per octave is the 128/125 interval, which is slightly less than half a conventional semitone.

[@mdrdprtcl]

Did you coin the term “Puppy Fifth”? Wanna make sure I credit you appropriately when I use it in the future

[@SocraticSwansongs]

Hahaha not sure if I made it up, if it came to me in a dream or if I heard it a long time ago… like quarter comma mean tone, it’s exact invention is not definitely known. I’ll take credit until someone claims it

[@mdrdprtcl]

@@SocraticSwansongs 🙏

[@Landekar]

Could you please tell what sort of vst are you using in the demonstration? Is it modeling all of those microtonal deviations that you're playing?

[@SocraticSwansongs]

I’m using pianoteq for all the piano which give the circle diagram of the tuning. The art of the fugue is all logic instruments tuned using the logic global tuning

[@MabInstruments]

At about 5:17, it's four fifths, you stack, not five.

[@SocraticSwansongs]

Thanks for your helpful and warm spirited feedback ! Like the puppy fifth, I’m a little out of tune 🐶

[@MabInstruments]

You are wrong. The wolf fifth of quarter comma meantone is much further out of tune than the wolf fifth of Pythagorean intonation.

[@MabInstruments]

The wolf fifth of quarter comma meantone is out of tune by about 35.68228600631 cents.

[@MabInstruments]

The wolf fifth of Pythagorean intonation is out of tune by approximately 23.460010384649 cents.

[@SocraticSwansongs]

@@MabInstrumentsI never said that! I said that the Pythagorean third is out of tune… the wolf fifth in both Pythagorean and quarter mean are to be avoided unless artistically desirable

[@MabInstruments]

What you mean, apparently, is tempering the fifths that absolutely and definitely are not wolf fifths, into fifths that also are not wolf fifths, but are slightly off.

[@MabInstruments]

​@@SocraticSwansongs, you say "it does so by tempering its wolf fifths". That is not what happens. It is not the wolf fifth that is tempered.