Topic: New lemba example

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From: Herman Miller (2004-11-22)
Subject: New lemba example

I was playing around with the "lemba" tuning again (the <<6, -2, -2, 
-17, -20, 1]] temperament, with TOP tuning P=601.7004928, G=230.8749260) 
and came up with a little melody that sounded interesting, so I started 
writing it down before I could forget it. By the time I got to the part 
where it modulates to G, I'd forgotten the rest of it. But I've got a 
few days vacation this week, so maybe I'll have time to figure out how 
it goes.

I did a crude MIDI rendition of it and put it up on my web site:

http://www.io.com/~hmiller/midi/lemba2.mid
http://www.io.com/~hmiller/mp3/lemba2.mp3

One interesting thing is that most of these parallel sixths are actually 
parallel octaves on the keyboard, since I'm using the 16-note per octave 
DE scale (i.e., two 8-note MOS per octave).

Here's the Scala files I used to tune this, first the scl file:

! lemba.scl
!
Lemba temperament (4 down, 3 up)
  8
!
  90.92429
  139.95064
  230.87493
  279.90128
  370.82557
  461.74985
  510.77621
  601.70049

and the kbm file to set it in the key of D:

! Linear mapping with D = 290 Hz
! Size:
0
! First MIDI note number to retune:
0
! Last MIDI note number to retune:
127
! Middle note where scale degree 0 is mapped to:
62
! Reference note for which frequency is given:
62
! Frequency to tune the above note to (floating point e.g. 440.0):
290.0
! Scale degree to consider as formal octave:
0