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  2. Equal temperament - Wikipedia

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    12 tone equal temperament chromatic scale on C, one full octave ascending, notated only with sharps. Play ascending and descending ⓘ. An equal temperament is a musical temperament or tuning system that approximates just intervals by dividing an octave (or other interval) into steps such that the ratio of the frequencies of any adjacent pair of notes is the same.

  3. Musical temperament - Wikipedia

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    In meantone temperament, this effect is even more pronounced (the fifth over the break in the circle is known as the Wolf interval, as its intense beating was likened to a "howling"). 53 equal temperament provides an extension of Pythagorean tuning, and 31 equal temperament is used nowadays to extend quarter-comma meantone.

  4. 12 equal temperament - Wikipedia

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    12-tone equal temperament chromatic scale on C, one full octave ascending, notated only with sharps. Play ascending and descending ⓘ. 12 equal temperament (12-ET) [a] is the musical system that divides the octave into 12 parts, all of which are equally tempered (equally spaced) on a logarithmic scale, with a ratio equal to the 12th root of 2 (≈ 1.05946).

  5. Meantone temperament - Wikipedia

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    For 12 tone equally-tempered tuning, the fifths have to be tempered by considerably less than a ⁠ 1 / 4 ⁠ comma (very close to a ⁠ 1 / 11 ⁠ syntonic comma, or a ⁠ 1 / 12 ⁠ Pythagorean comma), since they must form a perfect cycle, with no gap at the end, whereas ⁠ 1 / 4 ⁠ comma meantone tuning, as mentioned above, has a residual ...

  6. Your birth season might determine your temperament and ... - AOL

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    And those born in the icy cold of winter are actually more even-tempered folks, the research shows. The study comes from researchers in Hungary and was just presented in Berlin.

  7. Harmonic series (music) - Wikipedia

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    Thus, an equal-tempered perfect fifth (play ⓘ) is stronger than an equal-tempered minor third (play ⓘ), since they approximate a just perfect fifth (play ⓘ) and just minor third (play ⓘ), respectively. The just minor third appears between harmonics 5 and 6 while the just fifth appears lower, between harmonics 2 and 3.

  8. Column: Recovery will be tempered by hard decisions and, if ...

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    Even though there's not much left to burn now, the landscape will most likely return to being hazardous within a matter of years. That would be true with or without climate change.

  9. 53 equal temperament - Wikipedia

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    53 TET is a tuning of equal temperament in which the tempered perfect fifth is 701.89 cents wide, as shown in Figure 1, and sequential pitches are separated by 22.642 cents. The 53-TET tuning equates to the unison, or tempers out , the intervals ⁠ 32 805 / 32 768 ⁠ , known as the schisma , and ⁠ 15 625 / 15 552 ⁠ , known as the kleisma .