The Myth of Equidistance in Thai Tuning

It is a long-standing and widely accepted theory that Thai classical music (phleng Thai doem) is based on a tempered tuning system that divides the octave into seven proportionally equal intervals of 171.429 cents, sometimes called “7-tet.” This theory was formulated in 1885 by Alexander J. Ellis, w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garzoli, John
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Analytical Approaches to World Music 2015-11-01
Series:Analytical Approaches to World Music
Online Access:http://aawmjournal.com/articles/2015b/Garzoli_AAWM_Vol_4_2.pdf