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- From: ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning)
- Subject: Re: Fundamental Frequencies of the Musical Notes
- In-Reply-To: ted@nmsu.edu's message of Sat, 2 Jan 1993 00:38:24 GMT
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 16:41:07 GMT
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- a kind reader has pointed out that my previous postings are not
- terribly clear.
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- basically,
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- well-tempered is the system where half-tones are separated by a factor
- of 2^(1/12)
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- natural temper is the system derived from simple fractions. it is
- close to the well-tempered tuning if you look at the numbers, but not
- if you listen to the chords.
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- this kind reader also points out that there is a variation on natural
- tempering in which some of the later notes in the circle are tweaked
- a bit to make things come closer overall. this is called mean
- tempering and is essentially what piano tuners do when they walk up
- and down using different intervals from the first few keys that they
- tune from a reference.
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