For those of you that want to go deep on this subject (of which this article only superficially covers), I commend Stuart Isacoff's entertaining book _Temperame

For those of you that want to go deep on this subject (of which this article only superficially covers), I commend Stuart Isacoff's entertaining book _Temperament_ (Vintage 2009) to your attention. A wonkier, somewhat more no-nonsense treatment is J. Murray Barbour's _Tuning and Temperament_ (Dover 2004).