new introductory temperament

[Ron Koval]

Introducing the birth of the Equal Beating Koval "mini" (EBKM) temperament.  
I created this for those people wondering what is a good "starting" 
temperament.  I had been suggesting the Moore, but decided to take the time 
to create something especially for the 'first time'.

With that in mind, I decided to keep the maximum offset from ET at 1.5 
cents, and keep any fifths from being too noisy. This leads to a mild 
well-temperament with the major thirds ranging from 11.6 cents from pure to 
15.5 cents from pure.  I then "tweaked" the numbers to create the maximum 
equal beating effects.  Variety of color, created to fly "under the radar" 
and be used as an ET substitute on a regular basis.

offsets from equal temperament:

C    1.5
C#  -.2
D    .5
D#   .9
E   -.6
F   1.4
F#  -.8
G   1
G#  .4
A   0
A#  1
B  -.3

Realize, of course, with offsets this small, you've got to get pretty close 
(like ET) to get the proper effect.

This is "freeware", use and distribute as you wish.

Ron Koval
Chicagoland

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