Well Temperaments (Part 5) | Azimuth

Okay, let’s study Kirnberger’s three well-tempered tuning systems! I introduced them last time, but now I’ve developed a new method for drawing tuning systems, which should help us understand them better. As we’ve seen, tuning theory involves two numbers close to 1, called the Pythagorean comma (? 1.0136) and the syntonic comma (= 1.0125). While…