Other Tuning Systems
(other than LucyTuning)
Many tuning arrangements have been used in various cultures over the centuries. New systems are still being devised and experimented with, and all may be considered to fall into one or more of the categories below:
12tET breaks the octave into twelve equal semitones. Many integers other
than 12 have been used in the last two centuries principally experimentally,
and in the West.
Equal Temperaments
some of which may also be considered as specific meantone tunings and
mapped as Large
and small intervals
Meantone
tunings - (spirals of fourths and fifths)
Just
Intonation - (small whole number frequency ratios)
Tuning bibliography - (from
mills.edu)