George Secor

George was interviewed in 2018 about the origin and organization of the Moschino accordion system here.

As an inventor, Secor and Hermann Pedtke's Motorola Scalatron (1974) is an example of a Bosanquet generalized keyboard featuring a multicolored arrangement of 240 tunable oval keys, about which Secor said: "There is not much point in using this alternative keyboard for systems below 31 tones in the octave." However, "even if it were completely impractical musically, it would make a wonderful prop for a futuristic movie." Though its synthesizer capacities may not reach performance level, according to Easley Blackwood, "It has rock-steady tuning capabilities; you can always count on it to be right." George demonstrating the micro-tonal keyboard instrument can be seen in this demonstration video.

In music, miracle temperament is a regular temperament discovered by George Secor in 1974 which has the eponymous secor as a generator, serving as both the 15:14 and 16:15 semitones. Because 15:14 and 16:15 are equated, their ratio 225:224 ( 15 14 ÷ 16 15 = 225 224 ) {\displaystyle \left({\tfrac {15}{14}}\div {\tfrac {16}{15}}={\tfrac {225}{224}}\right)} is tempered out, and two secors give an 8:7 interval, a septimal whole tone. Three of these 8:7 intervals, or six secors, make up a fifth, so that 1029:1024 ( 3 2 ÷ ( 8 7 ) 3 = 1029 1024 ) {\displaystyle \left({\tfrac {3}{2}}\div \left({\tfrac {8}{7}}\right)^{3}={\tfrac {1029}{1024}}\right)} is also tempered out. This gives the seven-limit version of miracle.

George Secor (November 8, 1943 – March 2, 2020) was an American musician, composer and music-theorist from Chicago. He was the discoverer of miracle temperament and eponym of the secor.