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Viscount Physis Organs Reference Manual
MEANTONE 3b - MEANTONE 3#
This tuning is the prototype of all temperaments based on fifths reduced by ¼ of syntonic comma.
This generates eight pure major thirds: Eb, Bb, F, C, G, D, A, E. However, the other thirds are unsuable (B,
F#, G#). The fifths are defined as meantone fifths: shorter than pure fifths but still sounding well. Only one,
G#, fills all the gap created by 11 others and becomes a wolf fifth. Tonalities with little alterations sound very
pleasant. Well characterised chromatic scale. Move the wolf on C# to use the G# key as Ab.
Meantone 3b
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