ethanhein

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   by ethanhein 1y ago

   Every once in a while I get a giant traffic bump on an old post, and it's because someone shared it here. It's always a nice surprise. Thanks for reading!
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   by ethanhein 4y ago

   Meantone is a modification of three-limit just intonation to try to better approximate the thirds from five-limit just intonation. I know that it is historically inaccurate to say that meantone follows from five-limit, but in order to under
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   by ethanhein 4y ago

   I'm the guy who wrote the blog post, and I want to offer some clarity. Usually when people say "Pythagorean" tuning they are talking about three-limit just intonation, not five-limit. In three-limit, the major third is indeed
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   by ethanhein 4y ago

   I know that pure five-limit just wasn't ever a prevalent tuning system, but all the temperament systems are based on it, so it seems reasonable to present it as a kind of baseline, the "ground truth" from which the meantone a
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   by ethanhein 4y ago

   I wrote a blog post summarizing this research. The idea is that the swirls specify turns of the tuning pegs to modify meantone temperament. It's more or less pure speculation, but it does produce a very nice-sounding tuning, almost equ
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   by ethanhein 4y ago

   Hi, I'm the author of the blog post. I said that 5-limit is the basis for systems like meantone, which is true. Meantone systems take 5-limit as their starting point and then modify it. I deliberately skated over the specifics of how m
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   by ethanhein 4y ago

   Hi folks, I'm the author of the blog post linked above, and I got about ten times as many hits on the post as usual today, so thanks for reading!