Meantone temperament
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title:
Meantone temperament
text:
Meantone temperaments are musical temperaments; that is, a variety of tuning systems constructed, similarly to Pythagorean tuning, as a sequence of equal fifths, both rising and descending, scaled to remain within the same octave. But rather than using perfect fifths, consisting of frequency ratios of value 3 : 2, these are tempered by a suitable factor that narrows them to ratios that are slightly less than 3 : 2, in order to bring the major or minor thirds closer to the just intonation ratio o
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Musical tuning system
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meantone_temperament
date created:
2002-03-05T05:49:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T00:50:42Z
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