re: Compton/Erlich temperament

I don't know if there's a way to reply directly to a message in the list
archive, so this is my best attempt:

Carl wrote:

>How do we classify the Compton/Erlich scheme of tuning multiple
>12-et keyboards 15 cents apart?  Some sort of planar temperament
>with the following commas?

>531441/524288 (pythagorean comma)
>5120/5103 (difference between syntonic comma and 64/63)

>Is this right?

>-Carl

i don't know who compton is, but as for erlich, oddly enough, gene answered
this correctly a while back, but seems to have forgotten . . .

it's a linear temperament with the following comma:
531441/524288 (pythagorean comma)

15 cents is surely optimal in this context, right?
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