Definitions of tuning terms
© 1998 by Joseph L. Monzo
All definitions by Joe Monzo unless otherwise cited
limma, leimma
(Greek: "remnant", plural: leimmata, limmata)
[from John Chalmers, Divisions of the Tetrachord]
As this interval resembles another Pythagorean semitone much
more closely, the apotome, Woolhouse
perhaps should have used that name instead. Apparently he
based his terminology on the function of this semitone,
as the apotome was the Pythagorean chromatic semitone
and the limma was the Pythagorean diatonic semitone.
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