Topic: A hybrid pelog-slendro scale

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From: Herman Miller (2006-06-10)
Subject: A hybrid pelog-slendro scale

Not quite a traditional pelog ... I was looking for temperaments that 
have pelog-like scales in them, and found one in a 9-note chain of a 
temperament that I wasn't familiar with ... looked it up in a list of 
temperaments and it turned out to be "gorgo". The interesting thing 
about this one is that it gorgo is a 5&16 temperament, on a line between 
5-ET and 16-ET. So you can take it in one direction and approach a 
slendro tuning, and in the other direction it approaches 16-ET which is 
a mavila temperament. In the middle it's kind of a hybrid pelog-slendro. 
Not very traditional, but it could have uses.

! gorgo-pelog.scl
!
Pelog-like subset of gorgo[9]
  7
!
  64.82352
  293.02282
  521.22213
  684.59791
  749.42143
  977.62074
  1205.82004

It's not a very typical pelog; that 64.8 cent step is way small. Compare 
this with bug[9], which sounds a little more like a pelog scale.

! bug-pelog.scl
!
Pelog-like subset of bug[9]
  7
!
  101.28399
  260.25680
  520.51359
  679.48641
  780.77039
  939.74320
  2/1