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This sweetened tuning is not JI, ET, or meantone. It’s sort of in between. It sounds good to me, and it has the advantage that all of the cents numbers are 5 cent lines on the tuning meter. I’ve been using it for many years. Since it’s in between the the two “accepted” tuning standards,…

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This site (b0b.com) now supports the Secure Socket Layer protocol. You may see a padlock on your address bar, and notice that it is https instead of the old http. This is good! Some of the pages don’t have the padlock because of “mixed content”. This is usually because of images that were coded in…

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The subject of musical modes is pretty intimidating. The idea is that since there are 7 notes in the scale, any one of them could be the first note of a different kind of scale. To make it worse, someone gave each of these scales a hard-to-remember Greek name. Apparently you’re not a “real musician”…

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Most of us are familiar with the concept of relative minors, and how they relate to 6th chords. The 6th chords contain the same notes as the m7 chords, but the bass player uses a different note as the root. C6 = Am7 D6 = Bm7 F6 = Dm7 G6 = Em7 A6 = F#m7…

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unrelated to pedal steel guitar (so far as I know) reference: www.transpectra.org The Bohlen-Pierce (BP) scale  is an alternative musical scale arrived at by dividing the harmonic twelfth (a 3:1 frequency ratio) into thirteen steps. The result is an unusual sequence of tones providing many consonant intervals and hence the promise of extensive musical possibilities to…

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