A Just Scale for Music
Arthur Taber Jones · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1946
In addition to the well-known just major scale, Robert Smith described another that he regarded as equally harmonious. The second scale is like the well-known one except that its first two intervals are interchanged. It is now shown that this scale may be obtained from three consecutive minor triads, in a manner similar to that in which its well known counterpart is often obtained from major triads. A comparison and experimental test of the two scales shows little to choose between them. Sometimes one is preferred, and sometimes the other. A satisfactory scale should include the pitches from both.