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I see. I was confused because string players talk a lot about our wolf notes/wolf tones (especially violists and cellists), but I hadn't come across the term wo

• klodolph 5y ago
  That's because these tuning systems have been out of favor since about 1700. You might encounter some organists who know about it, but even then, there are only a handful of organs tuned this way in North America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meantone_organs_in_North_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meantone_organs_in_North_Ameri... It was Werckmeister who popularized and advocated systems which don't have wolf intervals (so-called "well temperament", as in "Bach's well-tempered clavier". The composers who cared about wolf intervals generally predate Bach, to give you an idea. Nowadays (since the 1980s) I can press a button and put my synthesizer or electronic piano in whatever tuning I want, so I can play with quarter-comma meantone temperament without finding one of the organs on the list, and experience it myself.