4 \ » a wk =o . - we Diesis An Introduction to the Temperament of Sil Notes to Each Octave Bill Coates © William Bromhead Coates 1992 140 Station Street Blackheath NSW 2785 Phone: (02) 47877324 (for Irene Coates)Bill Coates at the Archiphone mid-1990s Photo by Irene CoatesThe phenomenon which here is not to be narrowed or crippled is the phenomenon of the equal division of the octave into thirty-one parts, with its astonishingly close approximation to Meantone intervals, and to a wide range of Septimal intervals, as well as its good approximation to many Unidecimal intervals. ‘These thirty one notes have all proved to. be practical in use; and a great majority of listeners, after hearing a few minutes of music in this temperament, find that an interval of one thirty-first of an octave is quite a large step. Our ears seem all ready to take to this temperament.