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  2. 22 equal temperament - Wikipedia

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    In music, 22 equal temperament, called 22-TET, 22-EDO, or 22-ET, is the tempered scale derived by dividing the octave into 22 equal steps (equal frequency ratios). Play ⓘ Each step represents a frequency ratio of 22 √ 2, or 54.55 cents (Play ⓘ). When composing with 22-ET, one needs to take into account a variety of considerations.

  3. Quarter tone - Wikipedia

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    Composer Charles Ives chose the chord C–D –F–G –B ♭ as good possibility for a "secondary" chord in the quarter-tone scale, akin to the minor chord of traditional tonality. He considered that it may be built upon any degree of the quarter tone scale [ 4 ] Here is the secondary "minor" and its "first inversion":

  4. Nagamaki - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, a strong cord would sometimes be wrapped around the sword from the center of the blade to the tsuba (sword guard), and the user would hold the sword by that part of the cord. The sword used in this way was called nakamaki no tachi (中巻の太刀). It is believed that this usage evolved into the nagamaki, in which the hilt was ...

  5. 19 equal temperament - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1: 19-TET on the syntonic temperament's tuning continuum at P5= 694.737 cents [1]. In music, 19 equal temperament, called 19 TET, 19 EDO ("Equal Division of the Octave"), 19-ED2 ("Equal Division of 2:1) or 19 ET, is the tempered scale derived by dividing the octave into 19 equal steps (equal frequency ratios).

  6. Microtonality - Wikipedia

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    Microtonality is the use in music of microtones — intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals".It may also be extended to include any music using intervals not found in the customary Western tuning of twelve equal intervals per octave.

  7. Equal temperament - Wikipedia

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    12 tone equal temperament chromatic scale on C, one full octave ascending, notated only with sharps. Play ascending and descending ⓘ. An equal temperament is a musical temperament or tuning system that approximates just intervals by dividing an octave (or other interval) into steps such that the ratio of the frequencies of any adjacent pair of notes is the same.

  8. File:Tachi koshirae (Tachi mountings), Edo period. 太刀拵, 江戸時代...

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  9. 53 equal temperament - Wikipedia

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    In music, 53 equal temperament, called 53 TET, 53 EDO, or 53 ET, is the tempered scale derived by dividing the octave into 53 equal steps (equal frequency ratios) (Play ⓘ). Each step represents a frequency ratio of 2 1 ∕ 53 , or 22.6415 cents ( Play ⓘ ), an interval sometimes called the Holdrian comma .