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- What is 7 limit just intonation?
- What is 5 limit just intonation?
- What is a system where an octave is divided into 12 equal parts?
- How out of tune is equal temperament?
What is 7 limit just intonation?
7 Limit Just Intonation is when all the notes of the draw plate are in harmony. The recipe to achieve this is laid out as a table of offsets but you cannot tune a harp to be in harmony using only numbers.
What is 5 limit just intonation?
The 5-limit consists of all just intonation intervals whose numerators and denominators are both products of the primes 2, 3, and 5; these are sometimes called regular numbers. Some examples of 5-limit intervals are 5/4, 6/5, 10/9 and 81/80.
What is a system where an octave is divided into 12 equal parts?
Twelve-tone equal temperament 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 ( 12√2 ≈ 1.05946). ... Twelve-tone equal temperament is the most widespread system in music today.
How out of tune is equal temperament?
One of those tunings was already known to the ancients: equal temperament. Here the poison is distributed equally through the system: The distance between each interval is mathematically the same, so each interval is equally in, and slightly out of, tune. Nothing is perfect; nothing is terrible.
