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Meantone temperament
Meantone temperament
is a
musical temperament
, which is a system of
musical tuning
. In general, a meantone is constructed the same way as
Pythagorean tuning
, as a stack of
perfect fifths
, but in meantone, each fifth is
narrow
compared to the ratio 2
7/12
:1 used in
12 equal temperament
. The meantone temperament:
generates all non-octave intervals from a stack of
tempered
perfect fifths; and
by choosing an appropriate size for major and minor thirds, tempers the
syntonic comma
to unison.
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