Overview of historical temperaments on keyboard instruments.
The need for temperament arises because it is impossible to have octaves, fifths, thirds, etc., all pure at once, or, in other words, because the ratios of the different pure intervals are incompatible....
temperament, tuning, Pythagore, just intonation, Aaron,... >>read more
This paper explores the use of simple ratios to tune musical intervals and chords. Included are a tutorial, a set of computer programs, and a re-tuned two-part invention by J.S. Bach.
just intonation, tuning system, Helmholtz, Csound, intonation, computer music, electronic music, Bach >>read more
Historic music tuning problem described and solution provided with Pitch Palette software tunes a microtunable synthesizer to just intonation, world scales, historic scales and user scales in real time.
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Noticed that the frets of a guitar do not match up with the harmonics of the strings vibrating over the top of... >>read more
Catalog of Linear Temperaments:
list of classes of linear temperaments.
Mappings show the odd-prime axes in terms of the generator. The mapping uniquely defines a temperament, although all temperaments have more than one mapping because you could take eg a fourth or a fifth as the generator. ETs may not be consistent with the... >>read more