Well Temperaments (Part 5)

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 […]