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Jopah's understanding of tuning was more metaphysical than practical. He believed that ancient Talman philosophy, music and languages were unified. He often went beyond the texts and turned to the ancient Tigol, Windermere and Thensarian languages themselves for musical and philosophical ideas. For example Jopah proposed a novel 31 tone scale: | Jopah's understanding of tuning was more metaphysical than practical. He believed that ancient Talman philosophy, music and languages were unified. He often went beyond the texts and turned to the ancient Tigol, Windermere and Thensarian languages themselves for musical and philosophical ideas. For example Jopah proposed a novel 31 tone scale: | ||
1/1 64/63 21/20 16/15 35/32 9 | 1/1 64/63 21/20 16/15 35/32 10/9 8/7 7/6 6/5 128/105 5/4 80/63 21/16 4/3 48/35 45/32 64/45 35/24 3/2 32/21 63/40 8/5 512/315 5/3 12/7 7/4 9/5 64/35 15/8 40/21 63/32 2/1 | ||
in his commentary on Sondmorið which is directly influenced by the Tigol consonant system. The remarkable thing about this scale was that it consisted of 31 roughly equal divisions to the octave. | in his commentary on Sondmorið which is directly influenced by the Tigol consonant system. The remarkable thing about this scale was that it consisted of 31 roughly equal divisions to the octave. | ||