Here's a version of a piece in just intonation— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i68ifRkitA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i68ifRkitA —and "modern" equal te

Here's a version of a piece in just intonation— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i68ifRkitA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i68ifRkitA —and "modern" equal temperament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEbi-7tPaqo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEbi-7tPaqo As much as people describe just intonation as pure, etc, at least in this example it just sounds wrong to me. As far as I understand, just intonation requires instruments to be tuned differently for different keys and stops "working" if a piece strays from the key (which music from Bach's time will often do). Equal temperament is our workaround for the physics which doesn't quite match the 12-tone system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament