poole — SCL Detail

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! poole.scl ! ! Dicot-plutus-medusa-dominant wakalix ! dicot: -2 to 4; plutus: -1 to 5; medusa: -4 to 2; dominant: -2 to 4 ! dicot: sLLsLsL; plutus: ssLsssL; medusa: sLssLss; dominant: LLsLLsL ! ! Henry Ward Poole's double diatonic or dichordal scale, also Ewan Macpherson's experimentally-verified great highland bagpipe tuning

Playback

Select a tone, then click Begin. Use Arrow keys to step; Space stops. You can also use 1-0, qwertyuiop, asdfghjkl, zxcvbnm.

Overview (non-12°)

Degrees (now extended to 2 octaves)

#	Raw	Type	Ratio	Cents
1	9/8	ratio	9/8	203.91
2	5/4	ratio	5/4	386.31
3	4/3	ratio	4/3	498.04
4	3/2	ratio	3/2	701.96
5	5/3	ratio	5/3	884.36
6	7/4	ratio	7/4	968.83
7	2/1	ratio	2/1	1200.00
8		2nd octave		1403.91
9		2nd octave		1586.31
10		2nd octave		1698.04
11		2nd octave		1901.96
12		2nd octave		2084.36
13		2nd octave		2168.83
14		2nd octave		2400.00