Great thread. I've done a lot of reading and experimenting on this subject myself. There may be more 'technically correct' answers but most of the discussion here is much more sound than I have read in other places. MofN, your explanation of the woes of guitar players is the best-presented I have ever seen. One thing I wanted to throw in, for the mathematically-minded, is this: most of the development in temperament and tunings was done, historically, BEFORE the discovery of the properties of logarithms. We now have math tools to make calculating this stuff almost trivial, but in the days before logs, it took a pretty keen mind to get a grip on what was going on there. Cheers -Glenn
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