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'''Diminished''', [[12edo|12]] & [[16edo|16]], is a 5-limit temperament tempering out 648/625, the difference between four 6/5 minor thirds and the octave. Diminished has period 1\4 and generator 3/2 (or 25/24); it is associated with tetrawood (4L 4s), called the diminished scale in conventional music theory. | '''Diminished''', [[12edo|12]] & [[16edo|16]], is a 5-limit temperament tempering out 648/625, the difference between four 6/5 minor thirds and the octave. Diminished has period 1\4 and generator 3/2 (or 25/24); it is associated with tetrawood (4L 4s), called the diminished scale in conventional music theory. | ||
Many tuning optimization algorithms rate diminished as optimal near 12edo, | Many tuning optimization algorithms rate diminished as optimal near 12edo. However, you might want a better 5/4, and if you do, you have to flatten the 3/2 generator (as in [[28edo]] or [[40edo]]). | ||
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Revision as of 00:58, 9 April 2026
Diminished, 12 & 16, is a 5-limit temperament tempering out 648/625, the difference between four 6/5 minor thirds and the octave. Diminished has period 1\4 and generator 3/2 (or 25/24); it is associated with tetrawood (4L 4s), called the diminished scale in conventional music theory.
Many tuning optimization algorithms rate diminished as optimal near 12edo. However, you might want a better 5/4, and if you do, you have to flatten the 3/2 generator (as in 28edo or 40edo).
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| Rank-2 | |
| Acot | Blackwood (1/5-octave) • Whitewood (1/7-octave) • Compton (1/12-octave) |
| Monocot | Meantone • Schismic • Gentle-fifth temperaments • Archy |
| Complexity 2 | Diaschismic (diploid monocot) • Pajara (diploid monocot) • Injera (diploid monocot) • Rastmatic (dicot) • Mohajira (dicot) • Intertridecimal (dicot) • Interseptimal (alpha-dicot) |
| Complexity 3 | Augmented (triploid) • Misty (triploid) • Slendric (tricot) • Porcupine (omega-tricot) |
| Complexity 4 | Diminished (tetraploid) • Tetracot (tetracot) • Buzzard (alpha-tetracot) • Squares (beta-tetracot) • Negri (omega-tetracot) |
| Complexity 5-6 | Magic (alpha-pentacot) • Amity (gamma-pentacot) • Kleismic (alpha-hexacot) • Miracle (hexacot) |
| Higher complexity | Orwell (alpha-heptacot) • Sensi (beta-heptacot) • Octacot (octacot) • Wurschmidt (beta-octacot) • Valentine (enneacot) • Ammonite (epsilon-enneacot) • Myna (beta-decacot) • Ennealimmal (enneaploid dicot) |
| Straddle-3 | A-Team (alter-tricot) • Machine (alter-monocot) |
| No-3 | Mabilic (alpha-triseph) • Orgone (trimech) • Didacus (diseph) |
| No-octaves | Sensamagic (monogem) |
| Exotemperaments | Dicot • Mavila • Father |
| Higher-rank | |
| Rank-3 | Hemifamity • Marvel • Parapyth |
